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Consultative Peace Council Collected Records, 1930-1969 (bulk)

Extent:
0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, administrative files, minutes of meetings, publicity materials, brochures, newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Devere Allen, Dorothy Detzer, Alfred Hassler, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abe Kaufman, Frederick J. Libby, A.J. Muste, Ray Newton, Mildred Scott Olmsted, John Swomley, E. Raymond Wilson, and M.R. Zigler.

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Joseph Felmet Collected Papers, 1943-1994 (bulk)

Extent:
0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:
Collection includes two letters from Felmet; bulk of collection is photocopies regarding Felmet's draft resistance and civil rights work; also includes a photocopy of Felmet's FBI files.

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Harlem Ashram Collected Papers, 1942-1946 (bulk)

Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
Abstract:
Collection consists of one printed letter from Jay Holmes Smith"A Call to a World Brotherhood Mobilization" by Smith, one issue of Play Coop News, and an undated letter from Agnes Ryan to David R. Clark about her plans to open a School of Non-Violence.

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Charles E. Frantz Collected Papers, 1944-1949, 1978-1980 (bulk)

Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
Abstract:
Collection includes biographical information; letters from Frantz to his parents while he was in Civilian Public Service, 1944-1946, and 1947-1950; information about his refusal to register for the peacetime draft (Selective Service Act of 1948), and subsequent federal court proceedings and his 1949 imprisonment; newspaper clippings about draft refusers at Earlham College, 1949; a copy of Frantz's FBI file and correspondence relating to it, 1978-1980; and Frantz's writings about the Dukhobors, a pacifist sect.

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Alfred A. Fraser Collected Papers, 1917-1971 (bulk)

Extent:
0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:
Collection includes World War I draft cards of Alfred A. Fraser Jr., and a long memorandum about world affairs dated 1971 by A.A. Fraser, III.

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Anne Guthrie Collected Papers, 1932-1947 (bulk)

Extent:
0.13 linear ft. (1.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:
Collection includes 18 letters written between 1932 and 1947 from Anne Guthrie to "Dear Friends Everywhere" giving accounts of her travels. Two letters are typewritten, 16 are mimeographed.

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George Houser Collected Papers, 1942- (bulk)

Extent:
0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:
Collection is primarily correspondence between Houser and others regarding amnesty for war objectors (1945-1947), the Break With Conscription committee (1946-1947), correspondence with conscientious objectors (1942-1946), the Labour Pacifist Fellowship (Britain) (1945), Civilian Public Service strike (1946), the Peace Now Movement (1943-1944), and the Resist Conscription Committee (1948).

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