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Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-060
Abstract
The Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors was a non-sectarian, free advisory service for conscientious objectors to war and military service. The MBCO was set up to provide counseling and legal aid in metropolitan New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and established by the United Pacifist Committee in 1940. The group disbanded in 1980.
Dates:
1940-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Murray Polner Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-113
Overview
Polner was an author and editor of books and periodicals on social history, public policy, and Jewish concerns. This collection chiefly relates to his research on Vietnam veterans for his book No Victory Parades and on the question of amnesty for When Can I Come Home? The collection also include audiotapes of oral histories of American Jews who were conscientious objectors or who resisted serving in the military during World War II or the Korean War. There is additional material from...
Dates:
1963-1988
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 1
- Jews -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Draft resisters -- Sources 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Jews -- Sources 1
- Soldiers -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
- Soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Veterans -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Sources 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Koch, Ed, 1924- 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- 1
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- Polner, Murray 1
- Reston, James, 1941- 1
- Sherman, Edward F., 1937- 1
- Tatum, Arlo D. 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- United Pacifist Committee 1
- Watts, Roland 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1 ∧ less
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