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Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

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

Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-048
Abstract

The Federal Council of Churches organized its Committee on the Conscientious Objector under its Department of International Justice and Goodwill in 1941. The Committee was interested in all aspects of conscientious objection, especially religious life in Civilian Public Service camps. Among the Committee's projects was the organizing of a program of visitation to CPS camps.

Dates: 1941-1946
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Esther S. Frankel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-097
Scope and Contents

The collection contains case files and occasional correspondence of Frankel relating to her work handling civil liberties and selective service litigation. It includes subject file material mostly relating to conscientious objection, and the men who resisted the draft either before being drafted or after.

Dates: 1948-1975; Majority of material found within 1967-1971
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Edward Hasbrouck Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Hasbrouck, Edward
Abstract Edward Hasbrouck was born in 1960 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1980, when registration for the draft was reinstituted, he refused to register. Hasbrouck worked with the National Resistance Committee and affiliated local organizations. In June 1983, he was put on probation because of his draft refusal and sentenced to 1,000 hours of community service. This sentence was revoked in November 1983 in favor of a six month prison term, which Hasbrouck served at the federal prison camp in...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1965-1987
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Dwight S. Large and Frances K. Large Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Large, Dwight S. and Frances K. Large
Abstract

Papers of a Frances K. and Dwight S. Large, who worked for legal amnesty for Vietnam War resisters.

Dates: 1969-1976
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-099
Abstract

Staughton Lynd and Alice Niles Lynd, Quakers, authors, and activists in the civil rights and peace movements, who worked individually and collaborated on many labor and pacifist projects.

Dates: 1965-1995
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Macedonia Cooperative Community Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-071
Abstract The Macedonia Cooperative Community was formed in 1937 northern Georgia by Morris Randolph Mitchell (1895-1976), an educator who later served as the first president of Friends World College. The Macedonia Cooperative Community, which took its name from a nearby Baptist Church, was comprised of families who worked collectively on dairy, agricultural, forestry, and woodworking projects that provided the economic underpinnings of the community. Originally established as an economic cooperative,...
Dates: 1937-1958
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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

Michigan Labor Committee Against Peace-Time Conscription Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Michigan Labor Committee Against Peace-Time...
Scope and Contents

Collection includes printed correspondence, news release, flyers and periodicals.

Dates: 1945-1946
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

National Council Against Conscription Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-052
Abstract The National Council Against Conscription had its first official meeting on December 13, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Nation Council Against Conscription worked to defeat various legislative measures which promoted universal military training and peacetime conscription, by lobbying Congress, public speaking, publishing detailed analyses of proposed legislation, corresponding with magazine and newspaper editors about their coverage of Universal Military Training, and producing...
Dates: 1944-1960
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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