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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
Abstract 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

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

American Friends Service Committee papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-002
Abstract

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

Raymond Binford and Helen Binford Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Binford, Raymond and Helen
Abstract

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

Wilmer Brandt Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Brandt, Wilmer
Scope and Contents

This small collection is primarily made up of correspondence with Jeannette Rankin and others, including Round Robin letters sent to (and received from) friends, most likely those who were in CPS with him.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1952-2007

Center on Conscience and War Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-025
Abstract

Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.

Dates: 1940-2015

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-

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

Civilian Public Service Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-008
Scope and Contents The records of the CPSU were deposited in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection in June of 1946 by Robert Beach of Philadelphia, a CPSU member. A small portion of the records came to the Peace Collection in 1976 from historian Charles Chatfield. These records originated in the larger collection of CPS records given to Chatfield by Gordon Streib (see Accession 76A-84). Records include a proposed constitution, scattered minutes, correspondence (1943-1945), CPSU Newsletter, statements,...
Dates: 1944-1946

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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
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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
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