Committee to End Slave Labor in America Collected Records
Abstract
Includes correspondence, flyers, reports.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found in 1946
Language of Material
Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
Collection is open for research without restrictions.
Biographical / Historical
Committee to End Slave Labor in America; formed in 1946; headquartered in Los Angeles, California; concerned with conscientious objectors to World War II who served without pay in Civilian Public Service camps who were held beyond the end of the war; considered it "America's first official experiment with unpaid forced labor since the Civil War"; after the 1946 withdrawal of the American Friends Service Committee sponsorship of some of the camps, regarding them as peacetime conscription, the camps came under military control, and some of the camp occupants went on strike; the Committee to End Slave Labor supported the Glendora Strikers' Defense Committee; some of the sponsors included Allan Knight Chalmers, John Haynes Holmes, Allan A. Hunter, Dwight Macdonald, Milton Mayer, A.J. Muste, A. Philip Randolph, Kenneth Rexroth, Evan Thomas, Norman Thomas, Howard Thurman, and Oswald Garrison Villard. The executive secretary was Allan Hunter.
Extent
0.08 Linear Feet (1 linear in.)
General Note
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of the Committee to End Slave Labor in America.
Subject
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 (Person)
- Hunter, Allan A. (Allan Armstrong), 1893- (Person)
- Mayer, Milton, 1908-1986 (Person)
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 (Person)
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 (Person)
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 (Person)
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 (Person)
- Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981 (Person)
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 (Person)
- Committee to End Slave Labor in America (Organization)
- Committee to End Slave Labor in America (Organization)
- Civilian Public Service (Organization)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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