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Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:

Edgar R. Norton Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Norton, Edgar R.
Abstract

Includes correspondence, notes and reminiscences, statement of conscience by Edgar Norton; correspondents include Harrop A. Freeman, Norman J. Whitney.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1945-1949; 1945-1949, 1960
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

Joseph C. Osborn Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Osborn, Joseph C
Abstract

Collection includes biographical information, correspondence, information about Osborn's academic work at Purdue University, 1936-1942, and about his draft orders and conscientious objection status; and information about Osborn's time in Civilian Public Service and CPS reunions in 1983 and 1986.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1936-1986
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Pacific Counseling Service Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Pacific Counseling Service
Dates: 1969-1972
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Philadelphia Council for Conscientious Objectors Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Council for Conscientious Objectors
Dates: 1943-1952
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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

Prisoner Visitation and Support Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-223
Scope and Contents This collection was partially processed by the archivist in 2006. The material came in looking like it was in good order, but it was discovered that the folder titles rarely matched what was in the folders themselves. This necessitated sorting nearly everything into new folders. Some prisoner correspondence was already designated as such before its arrival at the SCPC, but a great deal was also found mixed throughout the rest of the collection. This was removed and put with the rest of the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1952-1991
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Igal Roodenko Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-161
Abstract

Igal Roodenko was a pacifist, peace and civil rights activist, and advocate of nonviolence. He was a member of the War Resisters League Executive Committee, served on boards of A.J. Muste Memorial Institute and Consortium on Peace Research and Development (COPRED), and was active in Men of All Colors Together.

Dates: 1935-1991
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Bayard Rustin Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Rustin, Bayard
Dates: 1947-1987
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Sallie Marx Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-270
Abstract

Sallie Marx (1929 - 2013), was a long time activist in New York City and was a war tax resister for over four decades. Marx was a co-founder of the New York Peoples Life Fund in 1971. The NYPLF redirected funds to social justice and community building efforts in New York.

Dates: 1948-2012
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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