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Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-073
Abstract
CCCO developed a nationwide network of military and draft counselors and attorneys to assist conscientious objectors. Most active during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the CCCO promoted such issues as amnesty, repatriation, and counter-recruitment.Operations were suspended in late October 2009. As of 2010, some of their counseling service has been taken over by the GI Rights Hotline.
Dates:
1948-2010
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Amnesty...
Overview
On January 12, 1946, the Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription was established to seek an amnesty for "all objectors to war and conscription," which included men under army court-martial for their stance against war. The Committee's most widely publicized work was the sponsorship of picketing demonstrations at the White House in May and December 1946 calling for amnesty, but the organization also promoted its objectives through lobbying of Congressional and other...
Dates:
1945-1948
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
Albon Man Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Man, Albon P.
Abstract
Albon Platt Man Jr.,was called up for the draft during World War II, but failed to register because of his conscientious objection to war, and was sentenced to three years in prison in March 1943. He was later involvemented with the Committee for Amnesty, the CCCO, the War Resisters League, and other peace groups.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943-1965
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
Murray Polner Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-113
Overview
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
Igal Roodenko Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-161
Overview
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
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- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
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- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 1
- Jews -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Tatum, Arlo D. 2
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. Project on Amnesty 1
- Amnesty Information and Action Center 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Colton, Kenneth R. 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Farnsworth, Douglis 1
- First, Curry 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gulick, Steve 1
- Hosman, Glenn B. 1
- Hutchison, Glenn 1
- Jordan, John E. (John Edward), 1934- 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Koch, Ed, 1924- 1
- Landau, Jon 1
- Lang, Vivien 1
- Large, Dwight S. 1
- Large, Frances K. 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- 1
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
- Man, Albon 1
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997 1
- Musil, Robert K. 1
- National Council for Universal and Unconditional Amnesty 1
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Emergency Ministeries Concerning the War 1
- National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Polner, Murray 1
- Price, Paton 1
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 1
- Reeves, George B., 1905- 1
- Reston, James, 1941- 1
- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Schwarzschild, Henry 1
- Seeley, Robert A. 1
- Sherman, Edward F., 1937- 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- Thomas, Evan, 1951- 1
- United Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
- United Pacifist Committee 1
- United States. Selective Service System 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Watts, Roland 1
- Whitehead, Carle 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
- Will, Herman, 1915- 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
- Wren, Irene 1
- Wright, Eric E. 1 + ∧ less
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