Civilian Public Service

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

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

George Houser Collected Papers

Collection — Othertype CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Houser, George

Abstract

Collection is primarily correspondence between Houser and others regarding amnesty for war objectors (1945-1947), the Break With Conscription committee (1946-1947), correspondence with conscientious objectors (1942-1946), the Labour Pacifist Fellowship (Britain) (1945), Civilian Public Service strike (1946), the Peace Now Movement (1943-1944), and the Resist Conscription Committee (1948).

Dates: Majority of material found within 1942-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Roy C. Kepler Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-185

Overview

Roy Kepler was a radical pacifist and conscientious objector during World War II, owner of Kepler Books in Menlo Park, California, involved for many years with the War Resisters League, one of the founders of the Pacifica Foundation and public radio in California.

Dates: 1940-1985

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Mennonite Central Committee Collected Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Mennonite Central Committee

Overview

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) was formed when representatives of various Mennonite conferences met July 27-28, 1920, in Elkhart (Indiana), and pledged to aid hungry people, including Mennonites, in Russia and Ukraine.Since then thousands have served with MCC worldwide on relief, peace and development projects.

Dates: 1940-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section / U.S. Peace Section Collected Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Mennonite Central Committee-Peace Section

Abstract

The Peace Section of the Mennonite Central Committee was established in January 1942, as successor to the Mennonite Central Peace Committee organized in 1939. It served as an agency for counseling on problems related to conscription and the draft, a representation to government, a center for study, research, and writing regarding the peace position, and a central agency for peace education.

Dates: 1942-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection