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National Council of Churches USA Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Council of Churches USA
Abstract

The records of the FCC and NCC highlight the unifying issues for national church work, including labor rights, anti-racism, and conscientious objection.

Dates: 1908-

Murray Polner Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-113
Abstract 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

Igal Roodenko Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-161
Abstract

Igal Roodenko was a pacifist, peace and civil rights activist, and advocate of nonviolence. He was a member of the War Resisters League Executive Committee, served on boards of A.J. Muste Memorial Institute and Consortium on Peace Research and Development (COPRED), and was active in Men of All Colors Together.

Dates: 1935-1991

Edward Thomas and Margaret Loring Thomas Collected Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Thomas, Edward-Margaret Loring Thomas
Abstract

Edward Thomas was a chemist and chemical patent lawyer in New York City. His wife Margaret Loring Thomas had been active in settlement work and a teacher of home economics before marriage. Both were activist, pacifist Quakers.

Dates: 1917-1952

Norman J. Whitney Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Abstract Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957 he helped establish, and directed for many years, the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education. Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York State Board for...
Dates: 1938 - 1967

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection 14
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
 
Subject
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 14
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
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Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 2
Christian union -- United States -- Societies, etc. 1
Christianity and international relations 1
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
Conservative Quakers 1
Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Environmentalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Ercildoun (Pa.) 1
Farmers -- Pennsylvania 1
Interdenominational cooperation -- United States 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
Liberation (New York, N.Y. : 1956) 1
Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
Philosophers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Primitive Quakers 1
Printers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Prisoners -- Connecticut -- Danbury -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker businesspeople 1
Quaker women -- United States -- 20th century 1
Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 1
Quakers -- Argentina 1
Quakers -- Maine 1
Quakers -- New England 1
Quakers -- North Carolina 1
Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
Society of Friends -- Schisms and separations 1
Society of Friends -- Wilburite controversy 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 -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
Women authors, American -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Refugees -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Correspondence 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Sources 1
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Names
Civilian Public Service 5
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 4
Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 4
French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 3
War Resisters League 3
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American Friends Service Committee 2
Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 2
Brooks, R. Boland 2
Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 2
DeSilver, Harrison 2
Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 2
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
Furnas, Paul J. 2
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
Kaufman, Abraham 2
Man, Albon 2
Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 2
Reeves, George B., 1905- 2
Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
American Civil Liberties Union 1
American Forum for Socialist Education 1
Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 1
Andrews, Bennett W., 1906-1994 1
Andrews, Florence N., 1913- 1
Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
Barr, Allen H. 1
Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
Big Flats Defense Committee 1
Blickenstaff, Harold 1
Bloomstein, Charles 1
Brethren Service Committee 1
Brinton family 1
Brinton, David, 1864-1945 1
Brinton, Eleanor Fisher, 1868-1958 1
Brinton, Joseph, 1828-1917 1
Brinton, Mary H. (Mary Howland), 1833-1870 1
Brinton, William Fisher, 1909-2008 1
Bromley, Ernest 1
Bromley, Marion, -1996 1
Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 1
CARE Inc. 1
Cary, Stephen G. 1
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription 1
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
Eichel family 1
Eichel, Esther 1
Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
Eichel, Seymour 1
Emergency Committee for the Assistance of Germans, Austrians, and Hungarians in Distress (Society of Friends) 1
Federal Correctional Institution (Danbury, Conn.) 1
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America 1
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee on the Conscientious Objector 1
Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
Fisher family 1
Fisher, Abraham, 1823-1909 1
Fisher, Sarah Wright, 1822-1886 1
Fisher, Susanna G., 1865-1956 1
Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
Gara, Larry 1
Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 1
Goldwasser, Martin 1
Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
Gould, Thomas B., 1813-1856 1
Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 1
Harkness, Georgia Elma, 1891-1974 1
Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989 1
Hartman, Grover L. 1
Hill, Lewis K. 1
Hopkins, Mary Brinton, 1831-1926 1
Howland family 1
Howland, David P., 1809-1852 1
Hutchison, Glenn 1
Jacob, Philip E. 1
Kantor, William Marx 1
Koch, Ed, 1924- 1
Lang, Vivien 1
Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
Lens, Sidney 1
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- 1
Lunde, Erling H. 1
Lynd, Alice 1
MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
Mennonite Central Committee 1
Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997 1
National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America 1
National Service Board for Religious Objectors 1
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
New York State Board for Civilian Public Service 1
Olmstead, Frank 1
Pacifist Research Bureau 1
Phillips, Randolph Godfrey 1
Pickus, Robert 1
Polner, Murray 1
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