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Center on Conscience and War Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-025
Overview
Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.
Dates:
1940-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Eichel Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-131
Overview
The Eichel Family papers provide a unique glimpse into the lives of conscientious objectors and peace activists from one family over two generations, from 1916 onward. Julius Eichel, David Eichel and Albert Eichel were all C.O.s during WWI. Julius Eichel and his wife Esther Eichel protested WWII. Their son Seymour Eichel also served time in prison for his refusal to serve in the military in the 1950s.
Dates:
1918 - 2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
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
Denny Wilcher Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wilcher, Denny
Overview
This collection documents the experiences of Wilcher (and his friends), while in Civilian Public Service, and after he left CPS and was imprisoned at McNeil Island Federal Prison Camp.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 3
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Brethren in Christ Church -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 1
- Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 1
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- United States -- Sources 1
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- Civilian Public Service 4
- Furnas, Paul J. 3
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- National Service Board for Religious Objectors 2
- Tatum, Lyle 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Borkholder, Philip L. 1
- Brethren Service Committee 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Center on Conscience and War 1
- Civilian Public Service Union 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Merom, Ind.) 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
- Doty, C. LeRoy 1
- Eichel family 1
- Eichel, Esther 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Eichel, Seymour 1
- Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee on the Conscientious Objector 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- Gara, Larry 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Greene, Felix 1
- Hartman, Grover L. 1
- Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hoover, Warren W. 1
- Huston, Ora 1
- Isely, Philip 1
- Jacob, Philip E. 1
- Kantor, William Marx 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Lunde, Erling H. 1
- Lynd, Alice 1
- Man, Albon 1
- Mennonite Central Committee 1
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- New York State Board for Civilian Public Service 1
- Newton, Ray 1
- Pacifist Research Bureau 1
- Rosenbaum, Crane 1
- Schmidt, John Wesley, 1917-1997 1
- Sherk, J. Harold 1
- Stafford, David Benbow, 1918- 1
- Swift, David Everett, 1914- 1
- Syracuse Peace Council 1
- Toney, Raymond J. 1
- Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956 1
- Vogel, Robert S. 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Whitney, Mildred C. 1
- Wilcher, Denny, 1914-1993 1
- Will, Herman, 1915- 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
- Winchester, Harold P. 1
- Yolton, L. William 1 ∧ less
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