Civilian Public Service
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-013
Abstract
The Fellowship of Reconciliation in the U.S. was founded in 1915 by Christian pacifists. The organization, whose members are now drawn from many religious groups, seeks to apply principles of peace and social justice and non-violent social change to issues such as disarmament, conscription, race relations, economic justice, and civil liberties.
Dates:
1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Nelson Fuson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-261
Overview
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Peace -- Religious aspects X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Cooking, American 1
- Disarmament -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Food service 1
- International relief 1
- Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Tennessee 1
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- War victims -- Services for -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1 + ∧ less
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