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Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

National Council to Repeal the Draft Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-085
Abstract

The National Council to Repeal the Draft (NCRD), organized in January 1969, worked to eliminate militaryconscription. Over forty organizations joined forces with NCRD to end the system of compulsory registration, classification, and induction. With a board power base the National Council to Repeal the Draft worked actively to get draft repeal legislation passed in Congress. With the official end of the draft on June 30, 1973, NCRD closed down its Washington operation in July of that year.

Dates: 1969-1973
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

New Jersey Council Against Conscription Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-New Jersey Council Against Conscription
Dates: 1945-1949
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Allen S. Olmsted II Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-095
Scope and Contents The bulk of the Allen S. Olmsted papers is correspondence (1898-1977). Most of these are carbon copies of letters dictated by Olmsted and filed in subject transfer files at his law offices in Philadelphia and Media (Pennsylvania) [note: there are also many letters from Allen Olmsted in the papers of his wife, Mildred Scott Olmsted (DG 082)]. Correspondents include Brent Dow Allinson, Gertrude Baer, Emily Greene Balch, Roger Nash Baldwin, Witter Brynner, Joseph S. Clark, Sophia H. Dulles,...
Dates: 1898-1986
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Philadelphia Youth Council to Oppose Conscription Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Youth Council to Oppose Conscription
Dates: 1947-1948
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

Channing B. Richardson Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Richardson, Channing B.
Scope and Contents

Correspondence includes letters responding to requests for support of conscientious objector status applications written by former students and/or Quaker acquaintances. He wrote letters on their behalf to various draft boards.

Dates: 1968-1972
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

SANE, Inc. Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-058
Scope and Contents Materials from national offices in New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., including minutes (1957-1987), correspondence (1957-1987), memoranda, reports, statements, literature, releases, newspaper advertisements, financial records, membership lists, clippings, photos, slides, motion pictures, and sound recordings; material on coalitions in which SANE was involved including Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy and National Campaign to Stop the MX (1981-1984) and Arms Control...
Dates: 1957 - 1987
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

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

Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-068
Abstract This group was originally named the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women [WCOC], and then the National Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women. It was formed in 1942 to protest the Austin-Wadsworth legislative bills and similar measures, which proposed that American women be drated into a civilian workforce for the duration of World War II. When the immediate threat of drafting women had passed, the group changed its name again, this time to the Women's Committee to Oppose...
Dates: 1942-1948
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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