American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
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
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
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- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
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