American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service / Prison Service Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-002
Abstract
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
Horace Champney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract
Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.
Dates:
1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civilian Public Service publications
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1236
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of the publications of conscientious objectors (COs) working at Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps in the United States during World War II, performing "work of national importance" in lieu of combat. Camps were established for various purposes, from firefighting in the rural West to caring for mental patients and the elderly. The publications cover areas across the United States, although are focused in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and California. Two...
Dates:
1941-1946
Elkinton, Waring Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1239
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-048
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
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- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 5
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 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
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- California -- Politics and government 1
- Charities -- France 1
- Charities -- Germany 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 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 objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Cooking, American 1
- Disarmament 1
- Draft -- United States 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Food service 1
- Food supply 1
- Illinois -- Politics and government 1
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
- International relief 1
- International relief -- France 1
- International relief -- Germany 1
- International relief -- Societies, etc 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
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- Lobbying -- United States 1
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- Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- National service -- United States 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Nonviolence -- History 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear disarmament 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- United States 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychologists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quakers -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- France 1
- Quakers -- Germany 1
- Quakers -- Ohio -- Yellow Springs -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Political activity 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Tennessee 1
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) 1
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) -- Germany 1
- Social service -- France 1
- Social service -- Germany 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
- Starvation -- Experiments 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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