Arle Brooks Correspondence, 1942-1944

Arle Brooks was born in 1909 in Grimes, Oklahoma. In 1935, he received a degree from Texas Christian University. Brooks also studied at the Chicago Theological Seminary and did social work in Texas. In 1940 he worked for the American Friends Service Committee in a work camp. During World War II, he would have been exempted as a minister, but he refused to register for the draft. He was sentenced and served three years. Following his release from prison, Brooks rejoined the staff of the Quaker Service Committee as Secretary of the Prison Service Committee. He died of cancer in 1953.