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Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Records, 1948-2010 (inclusive)

Extent:
90 linear ft. (90 linear feet.)
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.

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SANE, Inc. Records, 1957-1987 (inclusive)

Extent:
199 linear ft. (199 linear ft.)
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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 Computer Network (1981-1986); extensive reference files containing information about chemical and biological warfare, conversion, disarmament and disarmament conferences, the draft, military budget, MX missile, nuclear testing and nuclear test ban agreements, radiation and fallout, United Nations, and Vietnam war; SANE periodicals including SANE-U.S.A. (1958-1962), Sane World (1962-1987), and Conversion Planner (1978-1982); minutes, correspondence, and project files of New York Council of SANE...(see more)

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Young Friends of North America Committee on Conscription Records, 1968-1971 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.75 linear ft. (1.75 linear ft.)
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The Young Friends of North America, an open fellowship of Friends between the ages of 18 and 30, established a Committee on Conscription in the fall of 1968 to facilitate communication among Friends who were involved with draft resistance. The Committee, chaired by C.O. Peter Blood, collected information from members of the Religious Society of Friends who had refused to cooperate with conscription since the 1940s, as well as Friends who were currently imprisoned for draft resistance. Besides Peter Blood, David Morrison and Gary Stewart also seemed to have been involved in keeping the Committee active.

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Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd Papers, 1965-1995 (inclusive)

Extent:
8.33 linear ft. (8.33 linear feet.)
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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.

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John M. Swomley, Jr., Papers, 1940-2002 (bulk)

Extent:
13 linear ft. (31 boxes)
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John M. Swomley, Jr.; minister in the Methodist Church; served as Director of the National Council Against Conscription, editor of Conscription News, and as National Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation; active with the American Friends Service Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union; campaigned against universal military training; author of books on militarism and the Cold War.

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Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors Records, 1940-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:
7.5 linear ft. (7.5 linear ft.)
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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.

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National Council to Repeal the Draft Records, 1969-1973 (inclusive)

Extent:
11.75 linear ft. ([29 boxes])
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.

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