American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service / Prison Service Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-002
Overview
Organized to provide alternative service for conscientious objectors, who were assigned "work of national importance under civilian direction; the historic peace churches (Church of the Brethren, Religious Society of Friends and the Mennonite Church) band ed together to form the National Service Board for Religious Objectors (NISBRO) which coordinated the civilian public service (CPS) program; the American Friends Service Committee administered seventeen CPS camps and over thirty special...
Dates:
1940-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
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
Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Overview
Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates:
1920, 1938-1951
Friends Committee on National Legislation Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract
A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Nelson Fuson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-261
Overview
Nelson Fuson was a physicist and educator, active in Quaker concerns. The collection contains extensive correspondence and papers concerning his service as a conscientious objector in Civilian Public Service during World War II. As the child of missionaries to China, his hope was to do relief service in China, and many of the papers deal with CPS China Units. However, the China Units were never activated and Fuson was assigned to camps in Maryland, Indiana, New York, and North Dakota. He...
Dates:
1909-1996
William Huntington papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1181
Overview
The collection relates primarily to William Huntington, (1907-1990), a 20th century Quaker peace activist and the ship The Golden Rule which Huntington and others used to protest atomic testing in the South Pacific. Included are correspondence, photographs, conference papers, newspaper articles, memoranda, and minutes.
Dates:
1932-1984
World War I Reconstruction and Conscientious Objectors files
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1249
Overview
Card files on Conscientious Objectors in World War I (of all faiths) and on workers and applicants to the Reconstruction Unit program overseen by the Society of Friends in Europe after World War I.
Dates:
1918-1923
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- Subject
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 5
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 4
- Conscientious objection -- United States 2
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- California -- Politics and government 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Cooking, American 1
- Disarmament 1
- Draft -- United States 1
- Food service 1
- Food supply 1
- Illinois -- Politics and government 1
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
- International relief 1
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Lobbying -- California 1
- Lobbying -- Illinois 1
- Lobbying -- United States 1
- Lobbying -- Wisconsin 1
- National service -- United States 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Nonviolence -- History 1
- Nonviolence -- United States 1
- Nuclear disarmament 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quakers -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Political activity 1
- Quakers -- Tennessee 1
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- War -- Religious aspects 1
- Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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