Civilian Public Service
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
Macedonia Cooperative Community Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-071
Overview
The Macedonia Cooperative Community was formed in 1937 northern Georgia by Morris Randolph Mitchell (1895-1976), an educator who later served as the first president of Friends World College. The Macedonia Cooperative Community, which took its name from a nearby Baptist Church, was comprised of families who worked collectively on dairy, agricultural, forestry, and woodworking projects that provided the economic underpinnings of the community. Originally established as an economic cooperative,...
Dates:
1937-1958
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
Jayne Tuttle Wilhelm and Paul A. Wilhelm Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wilhelm, Paul and Jane Tuttle Wilhelm
Overview
Paul A. Wilhelm (1916- ) served in three Civilian Public Service Units: Camp 3, Patapsco, Md.; Camp 52, Powelsville Maryland; and Camp 49, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) State Hospital. He registered as a Baptist conscientious objector but became a Quaker after his marriage to C. Jayne Tuttle in 1943.
Dates:
1934-1978
George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Overview
George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.
Dates:
1931-2010
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- Subject: Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources X
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Collective settlements -- New York (State) -- Rifton -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- Georgia -- History -- Sources 1
- Cooperative societies -- Georgia -- History -- Sources 1
- Cooperative societies -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Georgia -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospital care -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Religious communities -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Societies living in common without vows -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Work camps -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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