Civilian Public Service
Organization
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-022
Overview
The roots of the NCCO began shortly after conscription in WWII was instituted. Little is known about the New York Office of the NCCO. It was headquartered at 31 Union Square West in New York City (NY) where the ACLU had its offices, and was likely set up in 1940, under the chairmanship of Norman Angell, and stayed in existence through 1945. In Washington (DC), the Temporary Committee for Legal Aid to Conscientious Objectors was formed in 1940. R. Boland Brooks had gone to NSBRO (National...
Dates:
1940-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors
Scope and Contents
Materials include releases and leaflets.
Dates:
1940-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Wilmer Brandt Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Brandt, Wilmer
Overview
Brandt was a conscientious objector to war, a Quaker, and interested in peace throughout his life.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1952-2007
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected Materials
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-056
Abstract
Chiefly the personal papers of conscientious objectors assigned to Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps during World War II, such as correspondence, writings, memoirs, and reference material about CPS. Also included are records of or about various CPS camps and projects.
Dates:
1939-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civilian Public Service publications
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1236
Overview
This collection consists primarily of the publications of conscientious objectors (COs) working at Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps in the United States during World War II, performing "work of national importance" in lieu of combat. Camps were established for various purposes, from firefighting in the rural West to caring for mental patients and the elderly. The publications cover areas across the United States, although are focused in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and California. Two...
Dates:
1941-1946
Civilian Public Service Union Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-008
Abstract
The Civilian Public Service Union was organized at the beginning of 1944 in the CPS camp at Big Flats, New York. Men at other camps and units quickly joined the group. CPSU, a union for "drafted workers conscientiously opposed to war," was formed to provide an organized means of communication and group action among men in all sections of CPS and to combat the waste and injustice of the CPS system itself. Ralph C. Rudd served as chairman from late 1944 until CPSU was dissolved in early...
Dates:
1944-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee to End Slave Labor in America Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee to End Slave Labor in America
Abstract
Includes correspondence, flyers, reports.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Albert and Frank Dietrich Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Dietrich correspondence
Abstract
Collection consists of correspondence between the two brothers and their letters to their parents and to Frank's wife, Christine; topics include war, peace, patriotism, daily life in the army and Civilian Public Service, and arguments about the use of military force and pacifist nonviolence in the face of Nazi Germany and expansionist Japan; Frank's letters from the Philippines offer descriptions of life there, and the challenges of wartime marriages and parenthood.
Dates:
1939-1946, 1988-1998; Majority of material found within 1939-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Elkinton, Waring Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1239
Overview
This collection includes information about multiple generations of the Elkinton and Waring families. It is concentrated on two generations: firstly, that of Howard West Elkinton (1892-1955) and Katharine Wistar Mason Elkinton (1892/3-1961), his wife, and secondly, that of their daughter, Theodora Elkinton (1927-) who married Thomas Waring (1921-2001). It is a story of life choices made by these Quakers: for Howard and Katharine Elkinton, to serve under the American Friends Service Committee...
Dates:
1815-2006
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-048
Abstract
The Federal Council of Churches organized its Committee on the Conscientious Objector under its Department of International Justice and Goodwill in 1941. The Committee was interested in all aspects of conscientious objection, especially religious life in Civilian Public Service camps. Among the Committee's projects was the organizing of a program of visitation to CPS camps.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 17
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 13
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 12
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 7
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 4
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 2
- I-W service 2
- International relief -- France 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 2
- African American civil rights workers -- History -- Sources 1
- African American pacifists -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- Sources 1
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Charities -- France 1
- Charities -- Germany 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Communal living -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Cooking, American 1
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Food service 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- International relief 1
- International relief -- Germany 1
- International relief -- Societies, etc 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 1
- Journey of Reconciliation, 1947 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- Liberation (New York, N.Y. : 1956) 1
- Mennonites -- Charities 1
- Mennonites -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Nonviolence -- History 1
- Nuclear disarmament 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Philosophers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospital care -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Virginia -- Williamsburg -- History -- Sources 1
- Public radio -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quaker conscientious objectors 1
- Quakers -- France 1
- Quakers -- Germany 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Tennessee 1
- Radicalism -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) -- Germany 1
- Segregation -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Simplicity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Smokejumpers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Social service -- France 1
- Social service -- Germany 1
- Society of Friends -- Delaware 1
- Society of Friends -- Maryland 1
- Society of Friends -- New Jersey 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
- Soldiers -- Philippines -- Correspondence 1
- Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Starvation -- Experiments 1
- Sustainable agriculture -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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