American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 3 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
Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Overview
Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates:
1920, 1938-1951
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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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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