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National Council to Repeal the Draft Records
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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The National Council to Repeal the Draft (NCRD), organized in January 1969, with headquarters in Washington, DC, had as its objective the elimination of conscription. Over forty organizations representing labor, religion, politics, women, youth, and business joined forces with NCRD to end the system of compulsory registration, classification, and induction. With its broard power base, which included those radicals, liberals, moerates, and conservatives who agreed on draft repeal, the National Council to Repeal the Draft worked actively to get draft repeal legislation introduced and passed in Congress. Individuals particularly instrumental in the leadership of the NCRD were James E. Bristol, John Hancock, Charles Harker, Stewart Kemp, and Thomas C. Reeves. With the official end of the draft on June 30, 1973, NCRD closed down its Washington operation in July of that year, thus bringing to an end their effort to end conscription in the U.S.
Records include minutes, correspondence, auditor's reports, Congressional hearings testimony, lists of contacts and sponsors, state organization files, pamphlets produced by NCRD and by other groups, press releases, newspaper clippings, and newsletters.
The collection is partially processed. A second accession, donated in 1981 remains in the original order.
Guide to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 2nd ed., p. 46.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.
Gift of National Council to Repeal the Draft, E. Raymond Wilson, 1981 [Acc. 81A-009] Partially processed by SCPC staff, 1980.
Items removed: sound recordings, slides.
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Copyright to the National Council to Repeal the Draft records created by the organization has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Collection Inventory
Materials from Refile Box- Refiled 1991 (October)
(Not for Repeal)
See New Hampshire File
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