American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
American Friends Service Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Friends Service Committee
Abstract
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.
Dates:
1917-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Allen S. Olmsted II Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-095
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the Allen S. Olmsted papers is correspondence (1898-1977). Most of these are carbon copies of letters dictated by Olmsted and filed in subject transfer files at his law offices in Philadelphia and Media (Pennsylvania) [note: there are also many letters from Allen Olmsted in the papers of his wife, Mildred Scott Olmsted (DG 082)]. Correspondents include Brent Dow Allinson, Gertrude Baer, Emily Greene Balch, Roger Nash Baldwin, Witter Brynner, Joseph S. Clark, Sophia H. Dulles,...
Dates:
1898-1986
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Judges -- United States 1
- Lawyers -- United States 1
- Loyalty oaths -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Practice of law -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
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- United States -- Race relations -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
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