Civilian Public Service
Organization
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-022
Overview
The roots of the NCCO began shortly after conscription in WWII was instituted. Little is known about the New York Office of the NCCO. It was headquartered at 31 Union Square West in New York City (NY) where the ACLU had its offices, and was likely set up in 1940, under the chairmanship of Norman Angell, and stayed in existence through 1945. In Washington (DC), the Temporary Committee for Legal Aid to Conscientious Objectors was formed in 1940. R. Boland Brooks had gone to NSBRO (National...
Dates:
1940-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service / Prison Service Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-002
Overview
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 papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-002
Overview
This collection is comprised of a single news letter and the correspondence of the American Friends Service Committee.
Dates:
1942-1947
Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors
Scope and Contents
Materials include releases and leaflets.
Dates:
1940-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Raymond Binford and Helen Binford Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Binford, Raymond and Helen
Overview
Raymond Binford served as President of Guilford College, High Point, North Carolina, for 16 years before taking a leave of absence to become the director of Civilian Public Service Camp #19 (Buck Creek Camp, Marion, North Carolina) during World War II.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Wilmer Brandt Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Brandt, Wilmer
Overview
Brandt was a conscientious objector to war, a Quaker, and interested in peace throughout his life.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1952-2007
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected Materials
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-056
Abstract
Chiefly the personal papers of conscientious objectors assigned to Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps during World War II, such as correspondence, writings, memoirs, and reference material about CPS. Also included are records of or about various CPS camps and projects.
Dates:
1939-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civilian Public Service publications
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1236
Overview
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
Civilian Public Service Union Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-008
Abstract
The Civilian Public Service Union was organized at the beginning of 1944 in the CPS camp at Big Flats, New York. Men at other camps and units quickly joined the group. CPSU, a union for "drafted workers conscientiously opposed to war," was formed to provide an organized means of communication and group action among men in all sections of CPS and to combat the waste and injustice of the CPS system itself. Ralph C. Rudd served as chairman from late 1944 until CPSU was dissolved in early...
Dates:
1944-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 21
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 13
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 7
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 4
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- I-W service 2
- International relief -- France 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Quaker conscientious objectors 2
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) 2
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 2
- correspondence 2
- newsletters 2
- African American civil rights workers -- History -- Sources 1
- African American pacifists -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- Sources 1
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- American Literature 1
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Bible -- Children's use -- Congresses 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching -- Congresses 1
- Bible -- Theology -- Congresses 1
- Charities -- France 1
- Charities -- Germany 1
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Collective settlements -- New York (State) -- Rifton -- History -- Sources 1
- Communal living -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Brethren in Christ Church -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- Georgia -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Cooking, American 1
- Cooperative societies -- Georgia -- History -- Sources 1
- Cooperative societies -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Food service 1
- Friendly Letter 1
- International relief 1
- International relief -- Germany 1
- International relief -- Societies, etc 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 1
- Journey of Reconciliation, 1947 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- Liberation (New York, N.Y. : 1956) 1
- Mennonites -- Charities 1
- Mennonites -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Nonviolence -- History 1
- Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear disarmament 1
- Oral histories 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Georgia -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Philosophers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospital care -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Virginia -- Williamsburg -- History -- Sources 1
- Public radio -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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