Contents


Collection Overview

Administrative Information

Historical Note

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Organization of the Collection

Search Terms

Series 1. Organizational Records

Series 2. Programs

Series 3. Literature

Series 4. Artifacts

Series 1. Organizational Records

Series 2. Programs

Series 3. Literature

Series 4. Artifacts

Valley Peace Center Records, 1967-1973

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by W.B. Cook, Jr. .

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2003

Collection Overview

Creator: Valley Peace Center (Amherst, Mass.)
Title: Valley Peace Center Records
Dates: 1967-1973
Abstract: A community organization located in Amherst, Massachusetts, that was staffed largely by volunteer workers and financed by memberships and contributions and aimed to oppose the Vietnam War, to counsel young men of draft age, and to support programs directed at related social and political problems. Includes minutes, correspondence, financial records, newsletters, clippings, volunteer and membership lists, questionnaires, notes, petitions, draft registration forms, buttons, posters, circulars, pamphlets, brochures, periodicals, bound volumes, and other printed materials on such topics as issues of war and peace, draft counseling, alternative service, fund raising, boycotts, war tax resistance, demonstrations, prison reform, environmental quality, and political candidates.
Extent: 28 boxes(13.75 linear ft.)
Language: English.
Identification: MS 301

Administrative Information

Acquired in February 1974 by a group of Executive Board members including Nonny Burack and Professor Dean A. Allen.

Processed by W. B. Cook, Jr., May 1980.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: Valley Peace Center Records (MS 301). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The collection is open for research.

Additions to the Collection

Accretions expected.

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Historical Note

A community organization staffed largely by volunteer workers and financed by memberships and contributions, the Valley Peace Center was established in October 1967 to oppose the Vietnam War, to counsel young men of draft age, and to support programs directed at related social and political problems. The Center rented space in Amherst, Massachusetts to house its draft counseling program, its library and its literature distribution services, and for planning and carrying out its other programs. The Center was succeeded by the New Valley Peace Center in April 1973.

Historically a center of dissent, the academic community's skepticism toward the Vietnam War was reinforced during this era by military draft laws and regulations that provided deferments for college and graduate students so long as they were pursuing their studies. This provision constrained many draft-age young men to college campuses and served to increase their uneasiness. As the decade of the 1960's progressed, opposition to the War and the draft grew, first on and then off the college campuses; spokespersons emerged; organizations were formed; and activities through which opposition to the war could be expressed were developed. In this milieu, in the summer of 1967, members of campus groups at the University of Massachusetts such as the Faculty Group on War and Peace and the Students for Political Action, together with individuals from other area colleges and from the community at large - representing primarily religiously oriented groups - joined forces to form the Valley Peace Center of Amherst.

According to its October 1967 brochure, the Center was conceived of as an "umbrella organization serving as a resource to all those concerned with current international tensions and domestic conditions associated with a state oriented to war." The founders of the Center defined six central aims: U.S. disengagement from the Vietnam War; reversal of the neglect of the human needs of deprived and minority groups in America; change of the draft law to better accommodate objection to the Vietnam War; elicitation of pledges from the government to avoid first use of nuclear and biological weapons; reduction of the power of the "military-industrial complex"; and strengthening of the United Nations. The first aim predominated and served as the unifying position of the Center over its existence.

The Center was active for more than five and a half years, drawing its financial support largely from the community and the bulk of its work force from student and community volunteers. Most of its resources were devoted to draft counseling and the support of that activity, to its library and its literature distribution programs, and to the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations of the late 1960's and early 1970's, especially the weekly Amherst Common Peace Vigil and the demonstrations at the Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee.

As the United States wound down its activities in Vietnam, changed the military draft law, reduced draft calls and eventually discontinued the draft altogether, the role and future of the Center came into question, and a series of conflicts erupted among its participants, especially between some of those long associated with it and a group of energetic newcomers. The quarrel came to a head in the spring of 1973 when, following a change in the voting membership of the Center's executive board, the views of the newcomers prevailed and the old-timers withdrew. The disruption caused so extensive a reorganization of the Center that it was viewed as discontinued. The succeeding organization renamed itself the New Valley Peace Center.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Valley Peace Center Records document the philosophy, activities, programs, and membership of the Center from its founding in 1967 to its disbanding and eventual re-forming as the New Valley Peace Center in 1973. The records comprise minutes, correspondence, financial statements, bills and invoices, manuscripts, surveys, membership lists, subject files, newsletters, brochures, posters, buttons, stickers, clippings, notes, petitions, draft registration forms, pamphlets, periodicals, bound volumes, and other printed materials on such topics as war and peace, draft counseling, alternative service, fund raising, boycotts, war tax resistance, demonstrations, prison reform, environmental quality and political candidates. The collection is prefaced with an introductory file including studies of the Center and is arranged into four series: organizational papers; programs; literature; and artifacts.

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Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into four series:

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Series 1. Organizational Records

Includes the Valley Peace Center Newsletter and the Valley Peace Center News Notes (subseries 1/00). The minutes of the Center begin with the surviving records of the Hampshire County Peace Action Committee, an ad hoc group which created the Center, followed by the minutes of its own Executive Board with certain other communications sent to members, surviving non-programmatic correspondence (correspondence relating to the Center's several programs is placed with other materials relating to respective programs), volunteer and membership lists and responses to mailings, all making up subseries 1/1. The financial records (subseries 1/2) of the Center comprise all surviving bills, cancelled checks, stubs and correspondence relating to its expenditures; no journal or other running record besides the check stubs seems to have survived. The Center's personnel did a great deal of clipping of current newspapers and leaves in magazines, both local and national; those clippings that originated in the local press or dealt with events taking place in this region are filed with the programs to which they related in series 23 or chronologically, except that the Westover Air Force Base demonstrations have their own folders in subseries 1/3. Materials relating to the activities of one of the Center's precursor groups, the Faculty Group on War and Peace, together with miscellaneous material from three individuals prominent at one time or another in the activities of the Center make up the fourth subseries of Organizational Papers.

Series 2. Programs

Includes materials used to organize and initiate services that the Center set out to provide. Subseries 2/1 is a general file of these programs and organizations. Materials relating to the assistance of candidates for public office, draft counseling, to the work involved in placing potential draftees in alternative service program, and to the provision of the library and literature distribution programs are set out in subseries 2/2 through 2/5, respectively.

Arranged by activity. Within each subseries, materials are arranged under either the name of the program or the name of the organization spawned by or cooperating with the Center.

Series 3. Literature

The Center operated its literature distribution and library program with several aims. It distributed literature and loaned books and pamphlets furthering its views on the Vietnam War, on war in general, and on other social problems in which it was interested. It informed potential draftees of their options, and kept draft counselors informed on the current state of the military draft laws and regulations and on court cases involving the draft. Much of the material was in the form of flyers and circulars, and periodicals produced by national organizations of long standing with well-known spheres of activity and expertise. These materials are arranged in subseries 3/1, under the name of the issuing agency, or, in the case of periodicals, by title. Some circulars and the like from miscellaneous sources are in topical groups in subseries 3/2. Clippings and extracts from the national media on the Vietnam war and other international and domestic issues in which the Center's participants were interested, are arranged by subject, and make up subseries 3/3.

Format considerations dictated the arrangement of most pamphlets and of books into subseries 3/4 and 3/5, respectively. Most pamphlets and all books are filed alphabetically by the name of the author, or, when none was shown, by title. Some smaller pamphlets showing no author are filed in subseries 3/1 under the name of the issuing agency.

Lists of book and pamphlet titles in this series are available in the collection.

There are many instances in which drafts of meeting minutes, carbons of outgoing correspondence, manuscript notes, etc., were made on the back of spare copies of notices of the Center's activities. In some cases, those copies used for "scratch" purposes may represent the only copies of such notices surviving in the files.

Series 4. Artifacts

Includes stickers, rubber stamps, and thirty-eight buttons related to the Vietnam peace movement, the McGovern candidacy, and other issues; and two rubber address stamps for the Center. Also included in this series, and stored in map case 2, drawer 5, are two posters advertising the Center's address, phone number and its services; one poster "Strategic Air command/Peace is our Profession"; and a copy of the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights with footnotes.

Series 1. Organizational Records

Introductory materials


Box

Folder

1 1
Guide (Removed to notebook of inventories.)

2
Donor File, (Removed. Office records.) 1971

3
Bergethon, B. - Outline for paper

4
Bergethon and Panter - Small Time, Most Greatly Liv'd' - original typescript

5
(Same) - photocopy

Subseries 1/00: Publications


Box

Folder

2 6
Valley Peace Center Newsletter 1967-1970

7
Valley Peace Center News Notes and Valley Peace Center Newsletter 1970-1973, 1973

Subseries 1/1: General


Box

Folder

2 8
Hampshire County Coordinated Action For Peace 1967

9
Minutes and papers of the Executive Board 1967

10
Minutes and papers of the Executive Board 1968

11
Minutes and papers of the Executive Board 1969

12
Minutes and papers of the Executive Board 1970

13
Minutes and papers of the Executive Board 1971

14
Minutes and papers of the Executive Board 1972

15
Minutes and papers of the Executive Board 1973

16
New Valley Peace Center 1973

17
General Correspondence of the Board 1967-1973

18
Valley Peace Center vs. James Kelley

19
Volunteer and membership lists

20
Volunteered in response to mailing 1970

21
Volunteered in response to mailing 1971

Subseries 1/2: Financial papers


Box

Folder

3 22
Bank statements and cancelled checks 1967-1968

23
Bank statements and cancelled checks 1969-1970

24
Bank statements and cancelled checks 1971-1972

25
Check stubs October 1967-March 1969

26
Check stubs March 1969-April 1971

27
Invoices, correspondence, etc. - A-L

28
Invoices, correspondence, etc. - M-Z

29
Bills and invoices 1968-1970

30
Bills and invoices 1971-1972

Subseries 1/3: Newspaper clippings - local


Box

Folder

4 31
1967

32
1968

33
1969

34
1970

35
1971

36
1972

37
1973

38
Westover demonstrations - #1

39
Westover demonstrations - #2

40
Local student registration

41
Undated

Subseries 1/4: Resources and backgrounds


Box

Folder

4 42
Faculty Group on War and Peace - Activities 1965-1968

43
Faculty Group on War and Peace - clippings, etc. 1965-1968

44
Faculty Group on War and Peace - Returns of 1967 questionnaire

45
Faculty Group on War and Peace - Petitions

46
?Allen, Dean A.? Manuscript notes for 2 talks about 1967 and letter 1970

47
Burak, Nonnie - correspondence, not Valley Peace Center

48
Winston, Robert M. - course notes, #1

49
Winston, Robert M. - course notes, #2

Series 2. Programs

Subseries 2/1: General (Often includes newspaper clippings)


Box

Folder

5 50
Fund raising

51
Advertising and Advertisements

52
Amherst Area Peace Action Committee

53
Amherst College; protest against investments in prime military contractors

54
Amherst High School

55
Anti-Draft Resistance Group

56
Apartheid boycott, etc.

57
Blacks and minorities - local

58
Coffee house proposal

59
Community Involvement Committee

60
Connecticut Valley Anti-War Coalition (CONVAQ 1970

61
Discussion groups

62
Environmental quality

63
Group for New Culture Protection (includes newspaper clippings)

64
Hampshire County Citizens Committee on Housing and Community Development

65
Letters to Editors

66
Literature distribution

67
Mailing list, undated

68
Military suppliers - boycotts, etc.

69
Miscellaneous

70
Moratoria 1969-1971

71
Moratoria - New England Packet 1972

72
Moratoria - "Set the Date Now" packet

73
New Politics Coalition

74
Nuclear pollution

75
People's Lobby

76
Prison reform

77
Speakers

78
Vigil

79
War tax resistance

80
Westover demonstrations - 41

81
Westover demonstrations - #2

82
Women's Institute

Subseries 2/2: Political Action


Box

Folder

6 83
General

84
Petitions and letter writing

85
Hatfield - McGovern amendment

86
Petitions - local 1970

87
Movement for a New Congress

88
Candidates for political office - local

89
Candidates for congress 1972

90
Presidential candidates - poten general 1972

91
Presidential candidates - Gravel 1972

92
Presidential candidates - McGovern 1972

Subseries 2/3: Draft Counseling


Box

Folder

6 93
Draft law and regulations

94
Draft law and regulations - appeals procedures

95
Draft law - proposals and changes

96
Draft law - court cases

97
Draft lottery

98
Local draft boards - rights and responsibilities

99
Massachusetts State Headquarters, U.S. Selective Service System - Circulars to local draft boards

100
Vermont State Headquarters, U.S. Selective Service System memoranda to local draft boards

101
Counselor's folder

102
Counseling applications

103
Advice to counselees

104
Counselor's status

105
Counselors' training, including programs for Valley Peace Center personnel

Box

Folder

7 106
Lists of reference materials for counseling

107
Price lists, etc., for reference literature

108
Lists of draft counseling centers


Draft registration, including form 100; classification questionnaire

110
Travel abroad for registrants

111
Refusal of induction; conscientious objection after induction

112
I-O - literature on conscientious objection

113
I-AO - noncombatant military service

114
I-O - form 150

115
I-W - Compulsory or alternative service program

116
II-W - Occupational deferments

117
III-S - Student deferments

118
III-A - Hardship and fatherhood deferments

119
IV-C - Aliens

120
IV-D - Divinity student and ministers - exemptions

121
IV-F - Unqualified for military service

122
Counseling military personnel - General

123
Counseling military personnel - Discharge

124
Counseling military personnel - Reserves and ROTC

125
Counseling military personnel - conscientious objectors

126
Counseling veterans

127
Draft avoidance - emigration to Canada

128
Draft avoidance - emigration to nations other than Canada

129
Renunciation of U.S. citizenship

130
Correspondence on repatriation

Subseries 2/4: Alternative Service Program


Box

Folder

8 131
List of positions and correspondence

132
Lists of potential employers in Massachusetts, #1

133
Lists of potential employers in Massachusetts, #2

134
Approved lists of programs from Selective Service System's state headquarters, A-

135
Approved lists of programs from Selective Service System's state headquarters, -W

136
Potential Massachusetts employers - "Do this next"

137
Survey of immediate job possibilities, #1 1970-1971

138
Survey of immediate job possibilities, #2 1970-1971

139
Survey of immediate job possibilities, #3 1970-1971

140
Survey of immediate job possibilities, #4 1970-1971

141
Survey of immediate job possibilities, #5 1970-1971

142
Survey of immediate job possibilities, blank forms 1970-1971

143
University of Massachusetts/Amherst as an employer

144
Potential jobs - employers' brochures, #1

145
Potential jobs - employers' brochures, #2

146
Potential jobs - employers' brochures, #3

Box

Folder

9 147
Applications for alternative work - "current"

148
Counseling - correspondence, #1

149
Counseling - correspondence, #2

150
Counseling - correspondence, #3

151
1970 directory of the Mt. Toby monthly meeting of the Friends

152
Delaware Draft Counseling and Educational Service

Subseries 2/5: Program resources


Box

Folder

9 153
Price lists - buttons, stickers and other artifacts

154
Price lists - films

155
Price lists - literature, audio tapes, etc.

156
Lists of other anti-war centers

157
Speakers lists

Series 3. Literature

Subseries 3/1: Brochures, circulars and periodicals


Box

Folder

10 158
A

159
Akwesasne Notes

160
American Friends Service Comnittee

161
American Friends Service Conudttee, New England Regional Office

162
Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament (AICD) (Australia)

163
Avoid Vietnams in Latin America (AVILA)

164
B

165
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Bulletin

166
Boston Area Ecology Action

167
C

168
Carbunkle Review

169
Catholic Peace Fellowship

170
CCCO Booklets #1-6 and "American Servicemen have rights"

171
CCCO Draft Counselor's Newsletter

Box

Folder

11 172
CCCO Newsletter

173
CCCO circulars

174
Civil Liberties

175
Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnams

176
Committee for Legal Research on Draft (bibliography)

177
Committee in Defense of the National Service Act, Australia

178
Committee to Defend Carlos Feliciano

179
Conscientious Objector Service

180
Counterdraft, vol. 1

181
Counterdraft, vol. 2-3:4

182
D

183
Direct Action (NECNA)

184
Draft Options

185
E

186
Earth Read-out

187
Edeentric (Center for Educational Reform)

188
Equity Newsletter

Box

Folder

12 189
Equity Newsletter

190
F

191
Fact Sheet On Vietnam War (CLCAV)

192
FCNL Washington Newsletter (Friends Committee on National Legislation)

193
Fellowship of Reconciliation

194
Final Draft (AFSC New England Regional Office)

195
Friends Peace Conmittee "Non-Violence" direct action, personal, nonphysical training manual (with notations)

196
G

197
High School Independent Newsletter

198
I

199
Indochina Bulletin (and War Bulletin)

200
Indochina Information Service 1972

201
Indochina Peace Campaign, including Indochina Report

202
Inter University Committee for Debate on Foreign Policy

203
Issues and Actions (CLCAV)

204
Jewish Peace Fellowship

205
L

206
M

207
Medical Aid for Indochina

208
Military Counselor's Directory (CCCO)

209
Military Law Reporter

Box

Folder

13 210
Mothers for Peace

211
N

212
National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex May 1972

213
National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex (NARMIC)

214
National Citizens Committee Concerned about Deployment of the ABM

215
National Conmittee Against Repressive Legislation

216
National Council to Repeal the Draft

217
National Council to Repeal the Draft. Newsletter

218
National Council to Repeal the Draft. NCRD News Update, #1-9 1973

219
National Council to Repeal the Draft

220
National Inter-religious Service Board of Conscientious Objectors

221
National Peace Action Coalition

222
National Strike Information Center Newspaper

223
New American Movement. "Full Campaign-anti-war, anti-imperialism" 1972

224
New England Committee for Non-Violent Action; see also Direct Action

225
New Mobilization Committee

226
Newsletter on Military Law and Counseling, vol. 2-3

227
Newsletter on Military Law and Counseling, vol. 4-5

228
Nor more Hiroshimas! vol. 16:1-3 1969

229
O

230
Opposition Air-War Bulletin, #1-3, (all published?) March-April 1972

231
P

Box

Folder

14 232
Peacemakers

233
People's Coalition for Peace and Justice

234
Promoting Enduring Peace 4140-232 (with gaps)

235
Promoting Enduring Peace, general, Cards C 17-19 and 21, and unnumbered reprints

236
Quaker Action Group

237
R

238
Reports for Conscience Sake (NSBRO)

239
Resist (the organization and its newsletter)

240
S

241
Shell Oil Company

242
Showdown

243
Southern Conference Educational Fund

244
Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

245
SANE

246
T

247
U

248
Union for National Draft Opposition

249
U.S. Dept. of the Army (probably attachments to CCCO circulars)

250
U.S. Dept. of State

251
U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity Mobilization of Non-poor volunteers in Community Action (annotated)

252
U.S. Selective Service System

Box

Folder

15 253
U.S. Selective Service System. Brochures, 1972 series

254
V

255
W

256
War Resisters League

257
World Law Fund

258
Y

Subseries 3/2: Literature by Subject


Box

Folder

15 259
Berrigan case

260
Bibliographies

261
Draft and draft resistance

262
Education in the ghetto

263
High schools

264
Hunger and malnutrition

265
Pollution and environmental quality

266
The Middle East

267
Military-industrial complex

268
Nonviolence and civil disobedience

269
U.S. military service

270
U.S. Racial Problems

271
U.S. "Southern problems"

272
Vietnam

273
Vietnam war

274
War tax resistance

Box

Folder

16 275
Washington D.C. protests, - People's lobby, March blockade 15-22 May 1972

Subseries 3/3:Newspaper clippings, extracts, etc.


Box

Folder

16 276
Draft reform and repeal, and volunteer army

277
Draft and draft status

278
Draft counseling

279
Draft alternatives

280
Foreign - Bangladesh, India and Pakistan

281
Foreign - China

282
Foreign - Latin America

283
Foreign - Middle East

284
Foreign - Southeast Asia

285
Foreign - USSR and Eastern Europe

286
"Human interest"

287
U.S. - anti-government sentiment

288
U.S. - Blacks and minorities

289
U.S. - CIA

290
U.S. - Congressional actions 1970-1971

291
U.S. - Consumer rights

292
U.S. - Drug scene

293
U.S. - Economy and welfare

294
U.S. - Elections 1970

295
U.S. - Environmental quality

296
U.S. - FBI surveillance ("snooping" and Berrigan case)

297
U.S. - Foreign policy and imperialism

298
U.S. - Gun control

299
U.S. - Justice and repression; civil rights

300
U.S. - Military establishment and militarism

301
U.S. - Military- industrial complex

302
U.S. - Military justice

303
U.S. - Military life, essays and descriptions

304
U.S. - Military reform

305
U.S. - Military - Vietnam veterans

306
U.S. Peace movement

Box

Folder

17 307
U.S. - Pentagon papers and Ellsberg

308
U.S. - Political prisoners (A. David, Harrisburg 11, etc.); civil disobedience

309
U.S. - Population control

310
U.S. - "Reactionaries and strong conservatives"

311
U.S. - SST and Lockheed

312
U.S. - Women's movement

313
Vietnam War -

314
Vietnam War and American life

315
Vietnam War - Army life

316
Vietnam War - Cambodia

317
Vietnam War - Chemical and biological warfare

318
Vietnam War - Laos

319
Vietnam War - My Lai (Lt. Calley) and other atrocities

320
Vietnam War - Peace talks

321
Vietnam War - Prisoners of war, jails, etc.

322
Vietnam War - U.S. anti-war activity

323
Vietnam War - U.S. campus demonstrations

324
Vietnam War - U.S. costs

325
Vietnam War - U.S. criticism

326
Vietnam War - U.S. policy

327
Vietnam War - Vietnam

328
Worldwide - disarmament

329
Worldwide - United Nations

Subseries 3/4: Pamphlets


Box

Folder

18 330
Allen, Robert I. Dialectics of Black Power. N.Y.; Weekly Guardian Associates; 1969. 32 pp.


Amherst, Mass., Citizens Review Commission Report to the town of Amherst, Nov. 1, 1969. 22 pp.


American Friends Service Committee. Speak truth to power: a Quaker search for an alternative to violence. A study of international conflict prepared for (the author). (author?, 1955). vii, 71.


_____. (another copy, same collation; printed in 1955).

331
Bell, Inge Powell. Status discrepancy and the radical rejection of nonviolence. Photocopy from Sociological Inquiry 38:51-64, 1968, pp. 52-63 not copied.


Berkeley-Oakland Women for Peace, Your draft-age son: a message for peaceful parents. Berkeley, CA, the author, 1968. 27 pp.


Blumberg, Herbert H. Accounting for a nonviolent demonstration. Photocopy from Sociological Inquiry 38:43-50, 1968. With Bell, Inge Powell in L.


Blumberg, Herbert H. A guide to organizations, books and periodicals concerned with nonviolence. Photocopy from Sociological Inquiry 38:73-93, 1968. With Bell, Inge Powell in L.


Brinton, Howard H. The peace testimony of the Society of Friends. Philadelphia?; American Friends Service Committee; (1955?). 16 pp.


Brown, Harrison. Community of fear, by Harrison Brown (and) James Real, with forward by Reinhold Niebuhr. Santa Barbara Ca.; Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions; 1960. (40 pp.)

332
Clark, Sen. Joseph S. Stalemate in Vietnam: report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. Washington D.C. U.S.G.P.O.; 1968. 24 pp.; folding map.


Commission on Voluntary Service and Action. Invest yourself: a catalogue of service opportunities; 25th ed. N.Y.; the author; (1970). 51 pp.

333
Directory of Social Change. Alternatives: foundation, a non-profit educational program for persons exploring alternative life styles. Sebastopol, Ca.; the Foundation; 1969. 30 pp.


Dixwell Legal Rights Association, Inc. Community workers as community organizers. New Haven, Ct.; the author; (n.d.). (13 pp.); Photocopy.


Drews, Dale H. Humanist Conscientious objection: a guide for men of draft age; 2nd ed. N.Y.; American Ethical Union; 1971. 44 pp.


Drews, Dale H. Humanist conscientious objection: a guide for men of draft age. N.Y.; American Ethical Union; 1971. 44 pp. "Riesterer".

334
Eberly, Donald J. A profile of national service. N.Y.; Overseas Educa-tional Service; (1966?). 60 pp.; "Dean A. Allen".


_____. _____. another copy, marked "Allen".

335
Farber, Jerry. The student as nigger. Boston, Ma.; New England Free Press; (n.d.). 6 pp.


_____. _____. another copy.


Fishel, Wesley R. The United States and Vietnam: two views by Wesley R. Fishel and T.A. Bison. N.Y.; Public Affairs Committee; 1966. 32 pp. (Public Affairs Pamphlet # 391)

336
Five College Research Committee. Consider these are the days... Amherst, Ma.; (the author?); 1970. 64 pp. 8 1/2" X 11".


_____. _____. another copy.


_____. _____. another copy, 5 1/2" X 8 1/2"

335
Frank, Jerome D. Breaking the thought barrier: psychological challenge of the nuclear age. Offprint from Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes 23:3, 1970. pp. 245-266.


Frank, Jerome D. Sanity and survival: II. the nonviolent alternative. Berkeley, Ca.; Acts for Peace; (n.d.) 16 pp. (Fresh Thoughts on the War Series, #2).


Freeman, Harrop A. (et. al.) Civil disobedience. Santa Barbara, Ca.; Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions; 1966. 32 pp.

337
Garwin, Richard L. Anti-ballistic-missile systems, by Richard L. Garwin and Hans A. Berne. Reprinted from Scientific American 218:3, 1968. 13 pp.


Greisman, H.C. The unprofitability of warfare: an historical-quantitative approach, by H.L. Greisman and Kurt Finsterbusch. A paper... 69th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Aug. 26-29, 1974. 40 pp.

338
Hare, Paul A. Nonviolent action from a social-psychological perspective. (photocopy from Sociological Inquiry 38:5-12, 1968. With Bell, Inge Powell, ....


Harvey, Arthur. Theory and practice of civil disobedience; (5th ed.?). Canterbury, N.H.; the author; 1967. 29 pp.

339
Junior League of Holyoke, Inc. Community services directory, 1969-1970. (Holyoke?); the author (1969?). 38 pp.


Junior League of Springfield, Ma., Inc. Community services directory (Springfield, Ma.?); the author; 1968. 108 pp.

340
Kelven, Harry, Jr. Congressional testing of Linus Pauling. Offprint from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 16:10 and 17:11 (i.e., 17:1?), 196o--1961. (16 pp.).

341
Lakey, George. Technique and ethos in nonviolent action: the woman suffrage case. Photocopy of Sociological Inquiry 38:37-42, 1968.With Bell, Inge Powell...


League of Women Voters of the U.S.A. The China Puzzle. (Washington, D.C.; the author 1967. 50 pp.; (Publication #320). "D.A. Allen".


Leland, William L. Working paper on the draft: a guide to the regulations (n.p.; n.p.); 1968. 14 pp.


Leventman, Seymour. The Gook syndrome: the Vietnam War as a racial encounter by Seymour Leventman and Paul Camacho. A paper... 69th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 26-29, 1974. 17 pp.


Lidz, Victor. A note on "nonviolence is two". Photocopy from Sociological Inquiry 38:31-36, 1968. With Bell, Inge Powell...

342
Magdoff, Harry. Economic aspects of U.S. imperialism. N.Y.; Monthly Review Press; 1966. 31 pp.; Reprint from Monthly Review 18:6, 1966.


Mann, Eric. The Newark community school. Boston; New England Free Press; (1967?). 8 pp.; reprint from Liberation, Aug. 1967.


Mumford, Lewis. The human way out. Wallingford, Pa.; Pendall Hill; 1958. 28 pp. (Pendle Hill pamphlet # 97).


Muste, A.J. Getting rid of war: national policy and personal responsibility. Philadelphia, Pa.; American Friends Service Comittee; (1959?). 12 pp.


Muste, A.J. Of holy disobedience; 2nd ed. Canterbury, N.H.; Greenleaf Books; 1967. 22 pp. "Valley Peace Center Amherst".


Muste, A.J. Of holy disobedience. Raymond, N.H.; Greenleaf Books; 1952. 19 pp.


Murray, John Courtney, S.J. Selective conscientious objection. Huntington, In.; Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.; 1968. 14 pp."D.A. Allen".

343
New Jersey Community Action Training Institute. Discussion: one step to community action-Barry A. Passett, director. (Trenton, N.J.?); the author n.d. 4 pp.

344
Organizing public events. n.p.; n.p.; n.d. 8 1.

345
Pauling, Linus. Why we must have peace. 1960? 4 pp. Offprint from Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, winter 1960.


Peace Maker Movement. Handbook on nonpayment of war taxes. Raymond, N.H.; Greenleaf Books; 1966. 42 pp.


Perloe, Sidney I. The effect of nonviolent action on social attitudes, by Sidney I. Perloe, David S. Ofton and David L. Yaffe. Photocopy of Sociological Inquiry 38:13-22, 1966. With Bell, Inge Powell


Pittsburgh University. Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Career and educational opportunities in the urban professions: new chal-lenges in building a livable urban America. Pittsburgh, PA; the author; 1966. 39 pp.


A Proposal for anti-war work aimed at talking to the American people: campaign. n.p.; (New American Movement?); 14 pp. on 8 1.

346
Questions and answers about Vietnam. derived from material from the Committee of concerned Asian Scholars. 32 pp.


_____. _____. another copy.

347
Rathjens, George W. The dynamics of the arms race. Offprint # 642 from Scientific American, 220:4, April 1969. 13 pp.


Revolution: violent and nonviolent: two documents. Reprinted from Liberation Feb. 1968. 27 pp.

348
Smith, Robert B. Campus protests and the Vietnam War. (n.p.; n.p.; n.d.) 47 1. plus tables and footnotes. Mimeo of text prepared for publication?


Standing Joint Pacifist Committee. Unarmed: some consequences of total disarmament. London, Peace News, 1957. 23 pp.


Stiehm, Judith. Nonviolence is two. Photocopy of Sociological Inquiry 38:23-30, 1968. With Bell, Inge Powell.

349
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The economic and social consequences of disarmament. Washington, D.C.; the author; 1962. "Valley Peace Center Library".


U.S. Congress 87th Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Cuban refugee problem: report of the ...subcommittee to investigate problem connected with refugees and escapees... April 11, 1962. Washington, D.C.: U.S.G.P.O.; 1962. 8 pp.


_____. _____. 9 other copies.


U.S. Congress, 88th Senate, Committee of the Judiciary. Cuban refugee problem: hearings before the subcommittee to investigate problems connected with refugees and escapees...Part 2. Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 14, 1963. Washington, D.C.; U.S.G.P.O.; 1963. pp. 185-250.


U.S. Congress, 89th. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. African refugee problems: hearing before the subcommittee to investigate problems connected with refugees and escapees ... Jan. 21, 1965. Washington, D.C.; U.S.G.P.O.; 1965. 62 pp.


U.S. Congress, 92nd. House, Armed Services Committee. Full committee consideration of procedure to be taken on conference committee meeting on HR 6531 (draft bill); and hearing on House resolutions 489 and 490-directing the President to furnish ... the study "United States-Vietnam relationships, 1945-67". (Washington, D.C.; U.S.G.P.O.; (1971). pp. 5371-5396.


U.S. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Summary report. (reprinted from Bantam Books ed. of the full report by a consortium). 29 pp.


U.S. Study Team on Political and Religious and Political Freedom in Vietnam. Findings on Trip to Vietnam: U.S. Study Team, May 25 - June 10, 1969. Nyack, N.Y.; the author; (1969). iii, 37 pp.

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Vietnam. N.Y.; University Review; n.d. 24 pp.

351
Wehr, Paul E. Nonviolence and differentiation in the equal rights movement. Photocopy of Sociological Inquiry 83:65-76, 1968. With Bell, Inge Powell.


Will we use the plague as a weapon? n.p.; n.p.; n.d. 8 pp.


_____. another copy

353
Yale University. Law School. Draft Law Group. The draft law and antiwar protests; an introduction for laymen. New Haven, Ct.; Church of Christ at Yale; 1967. 12 pp.

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Legal sized annex. Newspaper clippings photocopies

354
Legal sized annex. Programs (all subseries)

355
Legal sized annex. Pamphlets: Bell, Inge Powell

Subseries 3/5 Books



Abelson, Robert P. Canvassing for peace: a manual for volunteers, by Robert P. Abelson and Philip G. Zimbardo; forward by Allard Lowenstein. Ann Arbor, Mi.; Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; 1970. viii, 75 pp.


American Friends Service Committee. Peace Education Division. The Draft? A report prepared for the Peace Education Committee ... N.Y.; Hill and Wang; 1968. x, 112 pp.


Blackman, Allan. Face to face with your draft board: a guide to personal appearances. Berkeley, Ca.; World Without War Council; 1969. 90 pp.


Blaclunan, Allan. Face to face with your draft board: a guide to personal appearances, (rev. ed.). Berkeley, Ca.; World Without War Council; 1969. 115 pp.


Brown, Robert McAfee. Vietnam: crisis of conscience, by Robert McAfee Brown, Abraham J. Heschel (and) Michael Novak. N.Y.; Association Press (et. al); 1967. 127 pp. "Gift of Beate Riesterer 8/10/78".


Burchett, Wilfred G. Vietnam: inside story of the guerilla war, 2nd ed. N.Y.; International Publishers; 1965. xii, 252 pp. "D.A. Allen"


Calvert, Robert. Ain't gonna pay for war no more. N.Y.; War Tax Resistance; 1971. xvi, 128 "Gift of Beate Riesterer 8/10/78".


Chinnock, Frank W. Nagasaki: the forgotten bomb. N.Y.; World Publishing Co.; 1969. xiv, 304, cloth. "Gift of Beate Riesterer 8/10/78".


Delivered into resistance: the Catonsville Nine - Milwaukee Fourteen Defense Committee. New Haven, Ct.; Advocate Press, 1969. vii, 78.


Dickinson, Capt. Walter Mason. Memorial: Captain Walter Mason Dickinson, 17th Infantry, U.S. Army. (Amherst, Ma.?); n.p.; (1898 or 1899?). 56 pp.


First, Curry. Attorney's guide to selective service and military case law. New Philadelphia; C.C.C.O.; 1969. 187 pp.


Foster, Frank. The 72-73 draft: a doctor's guide. N.Y.; Lancer Books; 1972. 205 pp.


Gettleman, Marvin E. Vietnam history: documents and opinions on a major world crisis. Greenwich, Ct.; Fawcett Pbns.; 1965. 448 pp. "for Mark."


Ginger, Ann Fagan, ed. The New draft law; Supplement to civil rights and liberties handbook. Berkeley, Ca.; National Lawyers Guild; 1967. 135 pp. "Don't remove from Valley Peace Center".


Griffiths, J. The Draft law: a "college outline" for the Selective Service Act and regulations, 2nd ed. New Haven, Ct.; Yale Law School 1968. 72 pp. "Office copy"


Handbook for conscientious objectors, 12th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.; C.C.C.O.; 1972. 137 pp.


_____. another copy


_____. 11th ed., 1970. 100 pp.


_____. 10th ed., 1969. 100 pp.


_____. 9th ed., 1968. 110 pp.


Hill, Christopher R. Rights and wrongs: some essays on human rights. Baltimore, Md.; Penguin Books for Amnesty International; 1969. 189 pp. "Beate Reisterer 8/10/78".


Holzer, Werner. Vietnam oder die Freiheit zu sterben. Munchen; R. Piner; 1968. 137 pp. "Beate Reisterer 8/10/78".


Kaplan, Donald M. The Doomsday dictionary, by Donald M. Kaplan and Armand Schwerner. N.Y.; Simon and Schuster 1963. 316 pp., cloth. "Beate Reisterer 8/10/78".


Kearney, Harold M., ed. Youth services in Maine, 1970 ed. Orono, Me.; Cooperative Extension service; (1970?). 48 pp. "Ellis"


Kendall, David. The Lottery and the draft: where do I stand, by David Kendall and Leonard Ross. N.Y.; Harper and Row 1970. 159 pp. "Valley Peace Center Library".


Lacouture, Jean. Vietnam: between two truces, by Jean Lacouture, with introduction by Joseph Kraft. Toronto, Ont.; Random House; 1966. xv, 295 pp. "Mike Lynch"; heavily high lighted.


Lauter, Paul. ed. Teaching about peace issues: a peace education study kit, issued by the National Peace Literature Service of the Peace Education Division of the American Friends Service Committee. Philadelphia, Pa.; American Friends Service Committee; 1965. vii, 187 pp. bound with metal strap.


Leinwand, Gerald. The Draft, by Gerald Leinwand (and) Steven McLaine. N.Y.; Washington Square Press; 1970. 190 pp. "Valley Peace Center"; marked.


_____. _____. another copy


Lifton, Robert J. Home from the war. N.Y.; Simon and Schuster; 1973. 478 pp., cloth. "Beate Riesterer 8/10/78".


McAlister, John T., Jr. The Vietnamese and their revolution, by John T. Mc-Alister, Jr., and Paul Mus. NY.; Harper and Row; 1970. xiv, 173 pp. "Michael Lynch; "Valley Peace Center"


McCarthy, Mary. Vietnam, N.Y.; Harcourt, Brace and World; 1967. 106 pp. "Beate Reisterer 8/10/78"


Martin, Jeremy. How to score high on your selective service draft deferment test. N.Y.; Bantom Books; 1969. 167 pp. "J. Weston"


Medeiros, John M. The Case against a president's war ... Medeiros vs. United States, edited by Anita E. Siskind. North Adams, Ma.; Heartwell Pu-blishing; 1968. 54 pp.


Morgenthau, Hans J. Vietnam and the United States. Washington, D.C.; Public Affairs Press; 1965. 112 pp. "Mike Lynch"; high lighted.


NARMIC. Local Action/Research guide #1; weapons for counterinsurgency chemical/biological, antipersonal, incendiary. Philadelphia, Pa.; National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex. 1970. 104 pp. "D.A. Allen"


National Convocation on the Challenge of Building Peace, New York, 1969. First..., condensed transcript. (N.Y.?); Fund for Education in World Order, (1969?). 63 pp.


National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors. Guide to alternative service. Washington, D.C.; the author; 1970. 86 pp. "Office copy"


_____. _____. another copy. "David H. Ellis"


_____. _____. another copy. "Allen"


_____. Religious statements on conscientious objection, 7th ed., edited by Gerald E. Shenk. Washington, D.C.; the author; 1970.


_____. _____. supplement ... 1971. 19 pp. 7 copies


National Science Centers for Youth 1970-1971 directory. New Canaan, Ct.; the author; (1980?). 132 pp.


Pan, Stephen. Vietnam Crisis, by Stephen Pan and Daniel Lyons. N.Y.; East Asian Research Institute; 1966. 333 pp. "Valley Peace Center"


_____. _____. another copy. "Valley Peace Center"


Pickus, Robert. To end war: an introduction to the ideas, organization and current books. Berkeley, Ca.; World Without War Council; 1970. 262 pp. "Dean A. Allen"


Prasad, Devi. They love it but leave it: American deserters. London; War Resisters' International; 1971. 80 pp. "Valley Peace Center Library"


_____. _____. another copy. "Valley Peace Center Library"


Raskin, Marcus G. The Vietnam reader: articles and documents on American Foreign policy and the Vietnam crisis, by Marcus G. Raskin and Bernard B. Fall. N.Y.; Vintage Books; 1965. 415 pp. "Michael Lynch; Valley Peace Center"


_____. _____. rev. ed., 1967. 526 pp. "Michael Lynch; Valley Peace Center"


Rothenberg, Leslie S. The Draft and you: a handbook on selective service. Garden City, N.Y.; Anchor Books; 1968. 332 pp. "Office copy"


Satin, Mark, ed. Manual for draft-age immigrants to Canada, 3rd ed. Toronto, Ont.; NTO press for Toronto Anti-Draft Program; 1969. 86 pp.


Scheer, Robert. How the United States got involved in Vietnam; a report to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Santa Barbara, Ca.; the Center; 1965. 80 pp.


_____. _____. another copy.


Schlissel, Lillian, ed. Conscience in America. N.Y.; E.P. Dutton and Co.; 1968. 444 pp. "D.A. Allen"


Selective Service Law Reporter


_____. another copy


Sontag, Susan. Trip to Hanoi. N.Y.; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1968. 91 pp. "Beate Reisterer 8/10/78"; annotated.


Suttler, David F. IV-F (i.e., Four - F): a guide to medical, psychiatric and moral unfitness standards for military induction. N.Y.; Grove Press; 1970. xv, 176. "Valley Peace Center"


Tatum, Arlo. Guide to the draft, by Arlo Tatum and Joseph S. Tuchinsky, 3rd ed. Boston; Beacon Press; 1970. viii, 278 pp. Includes Supplement sheet "David Ellis"


_____. _____. another copy. "Alice W. Maxfield"


_____. _____. 2nd ed. 1969. xx, 295 pp. Includes a supplement. "Valley Peace Center Library"


_____. _____. 1969. xx, 281 pp. "Jean Williams"


United Community Services of Metropolitan Boston. Directory of Social, welfare and rehabilitation services in Massachusetts. (Boston?); U.C.S. Public Relations Department; (n.d.) 277 pp. annotated.


United Nations Association of the U.S.A. National Policy Panel. China, the United Nations and United States policy: a report; N.Y.: the association; (1966?). 64 pp. "Dean A. Allen"


U.S. Congress, 91st. House, Committee on the Armed Services. Review of the administration and operation of the draft law: hearings by the special sub-committee on the draft... Nov. 18, 1970. Washington, D.C.; U.S.G.P.O.; 1970. pp. 12463-12883.


U.S. Congress, 91st. Joint Economic Committee. A Foreign economic policy for the 1970's: hearings before the subcommittee on foreign economic policy... Sept. 29, 30 and Oct. 1, 1970. Washington, D.C.; U.S.G.P.O.; 1970. iii, pp. 959-1101.


U.S. Congress, 91st. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations. Chemical and biological warfare: hearing ... April 20, 1969.... (Washington, D.C.; U.S.G.P.O.); 1969. 50 pp. "Valley Peace Center Library"


Congress, 91st. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Refugee and civi-lian war casualty problems in Indochina: a staff report prepared for the use of the subcommittee to investigate problems connected with refugees and escapees... Sept. 28, 1970. Washington, D.C.; U.S.G.P.O.; 1970. viii, 107.


U.S. Congress, 91st. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Refugee and civi-lian casualty problems in Laos and Cambodia: hearing before the subcommittee to investigate problems connected with refugees and escapees... May 7, 1970. Washington, D.C.; U.S.G.P.O.; 1970. 107 pp.


U.S. Congress, 91st. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. A study of the selec-tive service system, its operations, practices and procedures together with recommendations for administrative improvement, submitted by the subcommittee on administrative practice and procedure. Washington, D.C.; U.S.G.P.O.; 1970. vi, 93 pp.


U.S. Congress, 92nd. Senate. H.R. 6531 in the Senate... an act to amend the Military Selective Service Act of 1967; ... (Washington, D.C.; U.S.G.P.O.); 1970. 74 pp.


U.S. Dept. of the Amy, Headquarters. Medical services; standards of medical fitness. Washington, D.C.; U.S.G.P.O.; 1969. pp. various


U.S. President's Commission on an All Volunteer Army. Report. N.Y.; Collier-Macmillan; 1970. 218 pp. "Valley Peace Center Library"


Wall, Byron, ed. Manual for draft age immigrants to Canada. Toronto, Ont.; House of-Anansi; 1968. 105 pp. "Office copy"


Where's it at: a research guide for community organizing. San Francisco; Movement Press; n.d. 95 pp.


White, Ralph K. Nobody wanted war. Garden City, N.Y.; Anchor Books; 1966. xiv, 386 pp. "Beate Reisterer 8/10/78"


Wittels, Mike. Advice for conscientious objectors in the armed forces. Philadelphia, Pa.; C.C.C.O.; 1970. 152 pp; has supplementary sheet "A few counseling agencies"


_____. _____. another copy, with supplementary sheet.


_____. _____. 2nd ed. San Francisco, Ca.; C.C.C.O.; 1972. 168 pp.; has supplementary sheet "A few counseling agencies"


Zagoria, Donald S. Vietnam triangle: Moscow; Peking; Hanoi. N.Y.; Pegasus; 1967. xiv, 286 pp. "Michael Lynch; Valley Peace Center"; annotated.

Series 4. Artifacts



Valley Peace Center sign, on cardboard 13" X 13": black lettering on white panels of heavy paper pasted onto black background; some panels missing.


Panel 1. Valley/Peace/Center/ open weekdays/ one to five p.m./(panel 2) telephone AL 3-3683.


Panel 2. Saturdays, two to four


Panel 3. Trained draft/and military counselors are/available during these hours./For urgent cases/other times/ (missing).


Valley Peace Center poster, on heavy beige paper 24" X 18". "where will the children play/valley peace center. 1 cook place/in the alley. amherst 253-3683" over silhouettes of people and animals; signed: Stella 73 6/20. (i.e., 20-6-73?)


Photograph poster, 23" X 17" of missile and billboard with legend "Strategic Air command/Peace is our Profession"; by Fleur De Lis, Amherst, Ma.


U.S. Constitution. Bill of Rights, as proposed March 4, 1789. 13 1/2" X 15" facsimile, with footnotes.

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Rubber Stamp: "Valley Peace Center/1 Cook Place - In the Alley/253-3683/Amherst, Mass. 01002"


Rubber Stamp: "Valley Peace Center/P.O. Box 418/Amherst, Mass. 01002"


Blank button. 5 red.


Blank button, red, hand-lettered: "KIDNAP/BEBE/RE(B)OZO"


Peace stamps 1 1/2" X 5" booklet, of 500, with 72 remaining.


Plastic packet of stickers:


All our sons in Vietnam are POWs (5)


Peace on earth, good will toward men (5)


War is not healthy for children (5)