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Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

Committee on Drafting Youth Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee on Drafting Youth
Dates: 1942
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Committee to End Slave Labor in America Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee to End Slave Labor in America
Abstract

Includes correspondence, flyers, reports.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1946
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Julien D. Cornell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-010
Abstract

Julien Cornell (1910-1994) practiced law in New York City, with a special interest in civil liberties. During World War II, he handled many cases for conscientious objectors, as well as advising many other COs about their various problems with the legal system. He was considered an expert on legal issues regarding conscientious objection and Civilian Public Service, and was consulted by many lawyers throughout the country for his opinions.

Dates: 1940-1947
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Delaware Draft Counseling and Education Service, Inc. Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-229
Abstract The Delaware Draft Counseling and Educational Service (DDCES), was organized in early 1969 with offices in Wilmington and Newark, Delaware. It provided men who had been drafted by the Selective Service System with information about the draft and their options within that system. The DDCES also provided information on the draft, individual rights under Selective Service laws and how to file for deferments and alternatives to the draft. With the end of the draft and beginning of registration...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1966-1991
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

End the Draft Committee Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-End the Draft Committee
Dates: 1963-1967
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Charles Fisher Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Fisher, Charles
Abstract

Charles Fisher was a draft counselor for the Boston Draft Resistance Group (BDRG), and involved with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

Dates: Majority of material found within 1964-1971
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Michael S. Foley Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Foley, Michael S.
Abstract

Michael S. Foley is an author, primarily about the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War.

Dates: 1965-2001
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Esther S. Frankel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-097
Abstract Esther Strum Frankel was a New Jersey attorney in the firm of Frankel and Frankel (along with her husband, Leopold), a pacifist, and civil rights activist; member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, served as head its Human Rights Committee, especially active in its New Jersey branch; also involved with Women Strike for Peace and other reform movements relating to feminism and disarmament; specialized in civil rights litigation in the 1950s and Selective Service...
Dates: 1948-1975; Majority of material found within 1967-1971
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Charles E. Frantz Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Frantz, Charles E.
Abstract Collection includes biographical information; letters from Frantz to his parents while he was in Civilian Public Service, 1944-1946, and 1947-1950; information about his refusal to register for the peacetime draft (Selective Service Act of 1948), and subsequent federal court proceedings and his 1949 imprisonment; newspaper clippings about draft refusers at Earlham College, 1949; a copy of Frantz's FBI file and correspondence relating to it, 1978-1980; and Frantz's writings about the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1944-1949, 1978-1980
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Larry Gara Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Gara, Larry
Abstract

Includes two typescripts: Amnesty and Reconciliation, and Peace Testimony: Root and Branch [annotated photocopy]; leaflet and periodical with mention of Gara's conscientious objection; slide show titled Active Nonviolence stored separately as Slide Show 2.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1949-1972
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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