American Friends Service Committee
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Devere Allen Papers
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.
American Friends Service Committee Collected Records
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.
American Friends Service Committee photographs
This collection consists of miscellaneous photographs, collected over time from various sources, documenting the American Friends Service Committee and its projects. Post-World War I and post-World War II and Vietnam War relief work are well documented, and there are also photographs of AFSC work in the United States, Africa, other parts of Asia, and the Middle East.
American Friends Service Committee Reference Files
Contains the reference files collected and assembled by American Friends Service Committee over many years to keep it informed of parallel service work by British and Irish Friends. Includes minutes, reports, and related papers of Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee, Friends' Council for International Service, Friends Service Council, and other Quaker relief agencies, mostly under the direction of London and Dublin Yearly Meetings.
Bowles family correspondence
Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles Family papers
The papers document the lives of service of Quakers Gilbert Bowles (1869-1960) and Minnie Picket Bowles (1868-1958), Quaker missionaries and ministers in Asia and Hawaii for over 60 years, from 1896-1960.
Civilian Public Service publications
Elkinton, Waring Family papers
Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records
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.
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- World War, 1939-1945 8
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 7
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 7
- International relief -- France 3
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Quaker women 3
- Quakers 3
- Society of Friends -- Japan 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 3
- correspondence 3
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- International relief -- Societies, etc 2
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 2
- Missionaries 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Quaker missionaries 2
- Quakers -- History 2
- Quakers -- Political activity 2
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) 2
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 2
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 2
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 2
- diaries 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- California -- Politics and government 1
- Charities -- France 1
- Charities -- Germany 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Cooking, American 1
- Disarmament 1
- Draft -- United States 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Finland 1
- Food service 1
- Food supply 1
- France 1
- Germany 1
- Haverford (Pa.) 1
- Hawaii 1
- Illinois -- Politics and government 1
- Incarceration 1
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
- International relief 1
- International relief -- Africa 1
- International relief -- Germany 1
- Japan 1
- Japan -- History 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Lobbying -- California 1
- Lobbying -- Illinois 1
- Lobbying -- United States 1
- Lobbying -- Wisconsin 1
- Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- National service -- United States 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Nonviolence -- History 1
- Nonviolence -- United States 1
- Nuclear disarmament 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- United States 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Philosophy -- Study and teaching 1
- Public relations 1 + ∧ less