Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
Murray Polner Papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Resist Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Resist
Dates:
1968-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Resist Conscription Committee Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Resist Conscription Committee
Dates:
1948
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Daniel A. Seeger Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Seeger, Daniel A.
Abstract
Seeger is best known for the 1965 Supreme Court court case regarding his conscientious objector claim without belief in a Supreme Being as grounds for C.O. status.
Dates:
1958-2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Benjamin Spock Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Spock, Benjamin
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of photocopied material released under the Freedom of Information Act for the years 1964-1972, with the bulk of the material from 1968. Includes informants' reports, transcripts of personal conversations, writings by and about Spock, and transcripts of Spock's media appearances.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1964-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Steve Trimm Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-232
Abstract
In 1968 Steven Wayne Trimm was convicted for refusing induction into the armed services and served four years prison. Trimm fled to Canada in 1969 where he lived underground until 1974. Two years later he received clemency from the U.S. government under the Earned Re-entry Program and was pardoned. Steve Trimm is the author of Walking Wounded: Men's Lives During and Since the Vietnam War (1993) and other publications. Since the 1970s Steve Trimm has also been active with various peace and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1963-2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John M. Swomley, Jr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-226
Scope and Contents
These files were separated out from the records of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 2007. His voluminous reference files were sorted through and duplicates and material already available at the SCPC were discarded. Much of what is in the Swomley papers references in efforts over many years to stop mandatory universal military training (UMT), especially in the United States.
See also newsletter Facts on File.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940-2002
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
The Resistance Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Resistance
Dates:
1967-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Vietnam Summer Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-067
Abstract
Vietnam Summer was a nationwide project designed to reach concerned citizens throughout the United States and to weld them into an organized and active constituency against the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr., Benjamin Spock and others launched the project nationally on April 23, 1967. From headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. co-directors Richard R. Fernandez and Lee D. Webb coordinated the efforts of 500 paid staff members and over 26,000 volunteers in about 700 local projects. Vietnam...
Dates:
1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Norman J. Whitney Papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
