American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry Joel Cadbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-081
Abstract
Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974) was a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Society of Friends. Cadbury was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe.
Dates:
1917-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
J. Stuart Innerst Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-103
Overview
J. Stuart Innerst was a United Brethren in Christ missionary to China in the 1920s. Innerst and his wife Marion Reachard Innerst left China in 1927 with great concerns about the influence of western imperialism in that country. J. Stuart Innerst served as pastor of several churches and joined the Society of Friends in 1943. In addition to his pastoral work, Innerst also served as the Director of the Quaker Friends in Washington Program (1960-1961, lobbied members of Congress regarding China,...
Dates:
1920-1975
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Clergy -- California -- History -- Sources 1
- College chaplains -- Ohio -- History -- Sources 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Lobbyists -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Loyalty oaths -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Militarism -- History -- Sources 1
- Missionaries -- China -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- California -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- History -- Sources 1
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Sources 1
- War finance -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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