American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
American Friends Service Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Friends Service Committee
Abstract
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.
Dates:
1917-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-048
Abstract
The Federal Council of Churches organized its Committee on the Conscientious Objector under its Department of International Justice and Goodwill in 1941. The Committee was interested in all aspects of conscientious objection, especially religious life in Civilian Public Service camps. Among the Committee's projects was the organizing of a program of visitation to CPS camps.
Dates:
1941-1946
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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- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Sources 1
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