American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
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
Wilmer J. and Mildred Binns Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-289
Overview
Wilmer J. Young (1887-1983), a Quaker teacher and peace activist born in Iowa, was involved in post World War I reconstruction in France and Poland. He married Mildred Binns in 1922, and together they worked with AFSC work camps and cooperative farms until he began to teach at Pendle Hill in 1955. The collection contains primarily journals and correspondence from his time in France.
Dates:
1909-2014
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Loyalty oaths -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Militarism -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Poland 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- History -- Sources 1
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War finance -- History -- Sources 1
- Work camps -- Pennsylvania 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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