American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Joel Cadbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-081
Abstract
Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974) was a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Society of Friends. Cadbury was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe.
Dates:
1917-1974
Friends National Peace Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Friends National Peace Committee
Overview
A short-lived Quaker organization that promoted peace during World War I.
Dates:
1915-1917
Rockland County Peace Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-121
Overview
The Rockland County Peace Association was a small local peace group begun in 1930 to stimulate popular education and public opinion with a view to the prevention of war. It carried on relief work during World War II through the American Friends Service Committee.
Dates:
1930-1950
Norman J. Whitney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Overview
Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957 he helped establish, and directed for many years, the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education. Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York State Board for...
Dates:
1938-1967
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- Subject: Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 2
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Loyalty oaths -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Militarism -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
- Society of Friends and world politics -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- History -- Sources 1
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War finance -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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