Brethren Service Committee
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Church of the Brethren Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Church of the Brethren
Abstract
Scattered items relating to peacemaking efforts and social justice projects of the Church of the Brethren. Includes some items about Civilian Public Service camps administered by the Church of the Brethren, and about the Brethren Service Committee, later called the Brethren Service Commission.
Dates:
1915-1980; Majority of material found within 1935-1980
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
- Cooking, American 1
- Food service 1
- International relief 1
- Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- Church of the Brethren -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Church of the Brethren -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Tennessee 1
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1 + ∧ less
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