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Accession #MU2017/80
TopicLeachman: Assortment of Materials
KeywordsPeace,
TitleLeachman Collection
LocationIS, Unit #10, in order of accession number
CitationLeachman Collection, MU2017/80, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana.
AccessCONFIDENTIAL - Researchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials.
ProvenanceCollection of the Archives
Scope and Content

Alternative service and draft counseling materials. Because of the personal nature and information regarding clients all of these files must be assumed to be CONFIDENTIAL.

Button: "Remember OCT.9."

Folder #1

Stationery for Clemency Information Center, Indianapolis.

Chronology and Comments form.

Affidavit of Joint Alternate Service Board.

Affidavit of Major General Eugene Forrester, 1975.

Folder #2 - Case Files - CONFIDENTIAL

Folder #3 - Correspondence circa 1971, 1972, 1973  - volunteers and supporting organizations - "Indianapolis Draft Project Newsletter" - clients.

Folder #4 - CONFIDENTIAL CASE FILE - Request for Discharge for the Good of the Service.

Folder #5 - James Leachman's personal materials including but not limited to: door tag, call logs, "Final Exam" 8/12/71 regarding the religious experience, "Questions of War and Peace: 1200-1535" for Christian Thought class I.U.-P.U.I., other papers for the class, Christian Thought, syllabi and practical notes," Anne Leachman folder, statement on amnesty, letter from Indiana State Headquarters Selective Service System to Indiana High School Principals regarding keeping students informed regarding the draft, peace pamphlets and articles, issues of The Peacemaker.

Folder #6 - Filing complaints in the Military

Folder #7 - The draft and interest in amnesty/clemency from within the Indiana Council of Churches.

Folder #8 - Client cases.

Folder #9 - "Mothers Speak Out," Fort Wayne.

Folder #10 - United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana - Plaintiffs War Resisters Information Center (names) v. Defendants Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense, Captain Don Roulstone, President, Joint Alternate, Service Board - Complaint for Declaratory Judgment, Mandamus, and Injunction (1974).

Folder #11 - National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (N.I.S.B.C.O.) Draft Counseling Memos (cover removed due to mold).

Folder #12 - Financial information and wage and tax statements.

Folder #13 - Indianapolis Area Draft Center - tax materials, "Homosexuality and the Draft," (1971) Cornell Gay Liberation Front, Checklist for Military Counselors (1970), list of employing agencies currently participating in the conscientious objector work program in Indiana, "Thinking About Noncooperation with the Draft" flyer, Draft Counselee Record Form, Veterans Record Form, "Compulsory Work Program for Conscientious Objectors," bibliographical materials regarding social, political, economic, cultural and legal issues surrounding conscription and the military.

Folder #14 - Clemency Cases.

Folder #15 - Draft counseling correspondence - Vietnam Era.

Folder #16 - Assortment of Vietnam War Era Indianapolis Area Draft  G. I. Center materials - draft counseling and volunteer programs - correspondence - baseball negative - selective service classifications - articles - aids when filing for Conscientious Objector status, etc.

Folder #17 - Client file.

Folder #18 - "The Selective Service System, It's Concept, History, and Operation," "Short Course in Selective Service."

Folder #19 - Indianapolis Area Beneficiaries of Amnesty," a list.

Folder #20 - "Reference handbook for Proposed Selective Service Education Unit for Indianapolis Public Schools, " January 1970.

Folder #21 - Bank book.

Folder #22 - Indianapolis Area Draft - G. I. Center (I.A.D.C.) Proposal Notes.

Folder #23 - Financial Survey Draft Counseling 1970 - statistics - miscellaneous correspondence.

Folder #24 - I.C.C. Foundation Proposal - Proposal of the Indiana Council of Churches for Draft Counseling Service to Vietnam Era Veterans, and Guidance to persons Volunteering for Work in Church and National/Local Social Agencies.

Folder #25 - Consultation on Peace Witness, 15 June 1974.

Folder #26 - Client file.

Folder #27 - Annual Report for 1971, Draft Counseling and Volunteer Services - Vietnam Era Veteran Fact Sheet - Church Mission and the Less Than Honorable Discharge - Senator Richard Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow's Leaders - correspondence/information regarding client case files - receipts for assistance - other assorted materials.

Folder #28 - Military Counseling - instructions for record searches at Fort Harrison Records Center, AWOL and Deserter Division.

Folder #29 - Clemency and clemency cases.

Folder #30 - REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT - including refugees settled by City Church of the Brethren, Goshen, Indiana - many articles and newspaper clippings related to the resettlement of refugees - 1982 list from the Church of the Brethren Refugee Resettlement Office for Church World Service that includes refugees from Ethiopia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Afghanistan, Poland, Iran, Algeria, Albania, Bangladesh, Iraq - information about how to better understand a Vietnamese family taken from the World Relief sponsorship  manual - Cuban refugee resettlement - Indiana Refugee Committee material - individual Church sponsorships of refugee families - "History Repeats itself...People Need Out Help Now!" - Indiana Council of Churches Refugee Resettlement Committee Meeting 1979 minutes - refugee families within Church of the Brethren districts in Indiana  - "A Resolution to Action in the Refugee Crisis of Southeast Asia" - and much more.


Date of AccessionUnknown
Bio History NoteIndiana Council of Churches, Draft Counseling and Volunteer Programs, James Leachman, Coordinator.
Archivist Note

ROLeachman2012/22 assigned by Jeanine Wine, 28 September 2012. Description prepared  1 October 2017 by Jeanine Wine.

 


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