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Conscientious objectors -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Brent Dow Allinson Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Allinson, Brent Dow
Scope and Contents

Collection includes undated typescript writings by Allinson, pamphlets by and about him, and a newspaper clipping discussing his court martial.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1918-1923
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-022
Overview The roots of the NCCO began shortly after conscription in WWII was instituted. Little is known about the New York Office of the NCCO. It was headquartered at 31 Union Square West in New York City (NY) where the ACLU had its offices, and was likely set up in 1940, under the chairmanship of Norman Angell, and stayed in existence through 1945. In Washington (DC), the Temporary Committee for Legal Aid to Conscientious Objectors was formed in 1940. R. Boland Brooks had gone to NSBRO (National...
Dates: 1940-1946
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Lew Ayres Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Ayres, Lew
Scope and Contents

Primarily contains newsclippings from 1942 when Ayres became a conscientious objector.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1942
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Jack Bollens Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Bollens, Jack
Abstract

Jack Bollens was a conscientious objector who worked in the peace movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1958-1981
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Charles E. (Charles Eugene) Fager Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-214
Overview Charles Eugene Fager is a Quaker writer, publisher, educator, and activist. Born in 1942, "Chuck" Fager graduated from Colorado State University and attended Harvard Divinity School. After working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Selma, Alabama, he performed Vietnam CO alternative service at Friends World College in 1966. He left FWC the following year, devoting his time to writing and freelance work. In the mid 1980s Fager started Kimo Press, a small publishing operation...
Dates: 1976-1999
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Friends Committee on National Legislation Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract

A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.

Dates: 1943-
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Warren W. Hoover Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Hoover, Warren W.
Abstract

Collection includes typed and handwritten lists, clippings and notices about conscientious objectors that had been dismounted from a scrapbook compiled by Warren W. Hoover. Eight folders are arranged the home state of the conscientious objector; nine are arranged by the religious denomination supporting the COs; the remainder, about 2.5 linear feet, is arranged chronologically; includes conscientious objection to the Vietnam War; materials date from 1956 to 1970.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1956-1970
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Gene Keyes Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Keyes, Gene
Abstract

Collection consists of printed materials, including information about Keyes' draft resistance during the Vietnam War, antiwar and anti-nuclear activities.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1963-1966
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Josiah P. Marvel papers

 Collection — Othertype SC-221
Identifier: SFHL-SC-221
Overview Josiah P. Marvel (1896-1959) was a Quaker, who worked with the American Friends Service Committee in France in 1940-41 and in 1942 became the chairman of the Quaker Emergency Service in New York City. This collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the Quaker Emergency Service, including its Civilian Readjustment Committee (a clinic that offered men arrested for soliciting sex with other men the option of psychiatric care in lieu of a prison sentence). The collection also includes a...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1942 - 1966
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Camilo Mejía Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Mejia, Camilo
Abstract

Collection has secondary sources only.

Dates: Majority of material found within 2005-
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections