Civilian Public Service
Organization
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Schumacher Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Schumacher, Charles
Abstract
Charles Schumacher was a chemist, chemical engineer and conscientious objector to World War II. He entered Civilian Public Service in 1944 and served in three CPS camps.
Dates:
1930-2003
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Reed Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-882
Abstract
This collection contains the letters of Reed Smith during his time in Civilian Public Serice camps as a Conscientious Objector during World War II and during his relief work in France, Germany, and Poland after the war with the American Friends Service Committee.
Dates:
1940-1947
Roland F. Smith Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Smith, Roland F.
Abstract
Papers of Roland F. Smith documenting his service in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during WWII, as well as family papers.
Dates:
1939-1946, 1981,1987-1990
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
William Macy Stanton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-242
Abstract
Contains the papers of William Macy and Lois V. Stanton, compiled by Lois V. Stanton. The Stantons were active Quakers, and William Macy Stanton, Jr., was a conscientious objector in WWII. Both Stantons served in the American Friends Service Committee reconstruction efforts in Europe after the war as well as other Quaker activities and organizations. William Stanton worked for Swarthmore College for over twenty-five years, serving as director of physical plant. Of particular interest are the...
Dates:
1937-1995
Swarthmore College Civilian Foreign Service Training Program records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-J03
Abstract
During World War II, Swarthmore College offered relief and reconstruction training programs, initially at the graduate level for men in the Civilian Public Service (CPS), and later as an undergraduate major. This collection consists of meeting minutes, correspondence, syllabi, reports, and other documents relating to Civilian Foreign Service (CFS) training programs at colleges and universities, particularly the CFS program at Swarthmore. The collection was compiled by J. Roland Pennock, a...
Dates:
1942-1946
Untide Press Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Untide Press
Abstract
Collection includes ten monographs published by Untide Press; three issues of The Illiterati (printed by the Untide Press), publication notices, and two letters between William Everson and Will Ransom.
Dates:
1943-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Norman J. Whitney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Jayne Tuttle Wilhelm and Paul A. Wilhelm Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wilhelm, Paul and Jane Tuttle Wilhelm
Abstract
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Abstract
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
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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