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American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-022
Abstract
The roots of the NCCO began shortly after conscription in WWII was instituted. Little is known about the New York Office of the NCCO. It was headquartered at 31 Union Square West in New York City (NY) where the ACLU had its offices, and was likely set up in 1940, under the chairmanship of Norman Angell, and stayed in existence through 1945. In Washington (DC), the Temporary Committee for Legal Aid to Conscientious Objectors was formed in 1940. R. Boland Brooks had gone to NSBRO (National...
Dates:
1940-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Friends Service Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Friends Service Committee
Abstract
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.
Dates:
1917-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bent Andresen Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Andreson, Bent
Abstract
Bent Andresen registered as a conscientious objector (CO) during World War Two and was sent to a Civilian Public Service in 1944. Andresen participated in a guinea pig project in which he and several other COs lived in a refrigerated room for three months to test the impact of a high-protein diet on cold-weather conditions. He went AWOL in 1945 and was sentenced to two years in prison. Andreson was involved in various peace and justice groups throughout his lifetime.
Dates:
1928-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bennett W. Andrews and Florence N. Andrews Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-209
Abstract
Bennett Andrews was an absolutist conscientious objector during World War II. He served a five year sentence Danbury Prison, a federal penitentiary, in Connecticut. There he worked in a number of positions in the prison. Bennett Andrews was released from prison on July 11, 1946 and received amnesty from President Truman in 1947. Florence Andrews (born in 1913) married Bennett on July 22, 1938. She was also a strong pacifist, who fully supported her husband's C.O. stance.
Dates:
1940-1950, 1979-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors
Scope and Contents
Materials include releases and leaflets.
Dates:
1940-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lew Ayres Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Ayres, Lew
Scope and Contents
Primarily contains newsclippings from 1942 when Ayres became a conscientious objector.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1942
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Harold Barton Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Barton, Harold
Abstract
In the early 1940s National Mental Health Foundation originated in 1944-1945 when Harold Barton and three associates, serving at Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), announced plans for a national campaign to improve the conditions in mental hospitals. The exposure of these conditions through the efforts of men serving in CPS, and their efforts to be a nonviolent presence in mental institutions, began a new movement in mental health care in the U.S. The National Mental...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1944-1949
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Charles Bloomstein Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Bloomstein, Charles
Abstract
Charles Bloomstein (1913 - 2002) was involved in a number of organizations that promoted civil rights, as well as peace. He was a conscientious objector during World War II, and served in Civilian Public Service (CPS) for three years.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1938-2002
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Wilmer Brandt Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Brandt, Wilmer
Abstract
Brandt was a conscientious objector to war, a Quaker, and interested in peace throughout his life.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1952-2007
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected Materials
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-056
Abstract
Chiefly the personal papers of conscientious objectors assigned to Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps during World War II, such as correspondence, writings, memoirs, and reference material about CPS. Also included are records of or about various CPS camps and projects.
Dates:
1939-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Subject
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 37
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 27
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 25
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 17
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 11
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 11
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 7
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Pacifists -- United States 4
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 4
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States 2
- Draft resisters -- United States 2
- I-W service 2
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 2
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
- Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 2
- Actors -- United States 1
- African American civil rights workers -- History -- Sources 1
- African American pacifists -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- Sources 1
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- California -- Politics and government 1
- Charities -- France 1
- Charities -- Germany 1
- Church work with gays -- Society of Friends 1
- Civil rights -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Communal living -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Cooking, American 1
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament 1
- Draft -- United States 1
- Dukhobors -- History 1
- Environmentalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Food service 1
- Food supply 1
- Freedom of speech -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Illinois -- Politics and government 1
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
- International relief 1
- International relief -- France 1
- International relief -- Germany 1
- International relief -- Societies, etc 1
- Jews -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Journey of Reconciliation, 1947 1
- Judges -- United States 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Draft resisters -- Sources 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Jews -- Sources 1
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Lawyers -- United States 1
- Lawyers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Liberation (New York, N.Y. : 1956) 1
- Lobbying -- California 1
- Lobbying -- Illinois 1
- Lobbying -- United States 1
- Lobbying -- Wisconsin 1
- Loyalty oaths -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Mennonites -- Charities 1 + ∧ less
- Language
- English 55
- Undetermined 1
- Names
- Civilian Public Service 28
- American Friends Service Committee 11
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 7
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 6
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 6
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 4
- Furnas, Paul J. 4
- War Resisters League 4
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 3
- Byberry State Hospital (Pa.) 3
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 3
- DeSilver, Harrison 3
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 3
- Kaufman, Abraham 3
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 3
- American Civil Liberties Union 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience 2
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 2
- Barr, Allen H. 2
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 2
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 2
- Brethren Service Committee 2
- Bromley, Ernest 2
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 2
- Brooks, R. Boland 2
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 2
- Cary, Stephen G. 2
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Civilian Public Service Union 2
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Big Flats, NY) 2
- Corfman, Rex 2
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 2
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 2
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 2
- Gara, Larry 2
- Hill, Lewis K. 2
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 2
- Man, Albon 2
- Mennonite Central Committee 2
- National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 2
- Peacemaker Movement 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Civilian Public Service Fund Committee 2
- Phillips, Randolph Godfrey 2
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 2
- Reeves, George B., 1905- 2
- Stanton, William Macy, 1919-1995 2
- Tatum, Arlo D. 2
- Tatum, Lyle 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
- Wilhelm, Paul A. 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Winchester, Harold P. 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Ahimsa Farm 1
- Albert, Alfred, 1908- 1
- Alexander, Howard W. (Howard Wright), 1911-1985 1
- Alexander, Mary Alice 1
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- American Forum for Socialist Education 1
- American Friends Service Committee. China Program 1
- American Friends Service Committee. Civilian Public Service 1
- American Legion 1
- Andrews, Bennett W., 1906-1994 1
- Andrews, Florence N., 1913- 1
- Angell, Ernest, 1889-1973 1
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
- Angell, Stephen Ward, 1952- 1
- Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors 1
- Axford, Roger W. 1
- Ayres, Lew, 1908-1996 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Barton, Harold E. L., 1916-2005 1
- Benoit, Emile 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Bliss, George I. 1
- Bloomstein, Charles 1
- Brandt, Willy 1
- Brandt, Wilmer, 1920- 1
- Branson, J. (Julia) 1
- Break with Conscription Committee 1
- Briggs, Franklin Humphrey, 1916- 1
- CARE Inc. 1
- Chicago Conference on Social Action (1943) 1
- Children's Creative Response to Conflict Program 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp #103 (Missoula, Mont.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (China Unit) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Coleville, Calif.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Gulfport, Miss.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Lagro, Ind.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Medaryville, Ind.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Merom, Ind.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Missoula, Mont.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Powellsvile, Md.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Trenton, N.D.) 1 + ∧ less
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