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American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service / Prison Service Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-002
Overview
Organized to provide alternative service for conscientious objectors, who were assigned "work of national importance under civilian direction; the historic peace churches (Church of the Brethren, Religious Society of Friends and the Mennonite Church) band ed together to form the National Service Board for Religious Objectors (NISBRO) which coordinated the civilian public service (CPS) program; the American Friends Service Committee administered seventeen CPS camps and over thirty special...
Dates:
1940-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors
Scope and Contents
Materials include releases and leaflets.
Dates:
1940-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Raymond Binford and Helen Binford Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Binford, Raymond and Helen
Overview
Raymond Binford served as President of Guilford College, High Point, North Carolina, for 16 years before taking a leave of absence to become the director of Civilian Public Service Camp #19 (Buck Creek Camp, Marion, North Carolina) during World War II.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Wilmer Brandt Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Brandt, Wilmer
Overview
Brandt was a conscientious objector to war, a Quaker, and interested in peace throughout his life.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1952-2007
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Center on Conscience and War Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-025
Overview
Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.
Dates:
1940-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected Materials
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-056
Abstract
Chiefly the personal papers of conscientious objectors assigned to Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps during World War II, such as correspondence, writings, memoirs, and reference material about CPS. Also included are records of or about various CPS camps and projects.
Dates:
1939-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civilian Public Service Union Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-008
Abstract
The Civilian Public Service Union was organized at the beginning of 1944 in the CPS camp at Big Flats, New York. Men at other camps and units quickly joined the group. CPSU, a union for "drafted workers conscientiously opposed to war," was formed to provide an organized means of communication and group action among men in all sections of CPS and to combat the waste and injustice of the CPS system itself. Ralph C. Rudd served as chairman from late 1944 until CPSU was dissolved in early...
Dates:
1944-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee to End Slave Labor in America Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee to End Slave Labor in America
Abstract
Includes correspondence, flyers, reports.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1946
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
Henry LeRoy Finch Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-195
Overview
Henry Leroy (Roy) Finch Jr. was a pacifist, conscientious objector to World War II, philosopher and writer.
Dates:
1933-1995
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 21
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 12
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- I-W service 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 2
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Brethren in Christ Church -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- Liberation (New York, N.Y. : 1956) 1
- Mennonites -- Charities 1
- Mennonites -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
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- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Virginia -- Williamsburg -- History -- Sources 1
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- Quakers -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Smokejumpers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 1
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- War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
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- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 5
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 4
- American Friends Service Committee 3
- Barr, Allen H. 3
- Furnas, Paul J. 3
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 3
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 3
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 2
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 2
- Civilian Public Service Union 2
- Corfman, Rex 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Mennonite Central Committee 2
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 2
- National Service Board for Religious Objectors 2
- Pacifist Research Bureau 2
- War Resisters League 2
- Wilhelm, Paul A. 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Winchester, Harold P. 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Alexander, Howard W. (Howard Wright), 1911-1985 1
- Alexander, Mary Alice 1
- American Forum for Socialist Education 1
- American Friends Service Committee. Civilian Public Service 1
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 1
- Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Binford, Helen 1
- Binford, Raymond, 1876-1951 1
- Borkholder, Philip L. 1
- Brandt, Wilmer, 1920- 1
- Break with Conscription Committee 1
- Brethren Service Committee 1
- Briggs, Franklin Humphrey, 1916- 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Byberry State Hospital (Pa.) 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Center on Conscience and War 1
- Chicago Conference on Social Action (1943) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Coleville, Calif.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Gulfport, Miss.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Medaryville, Ind.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Merom, Ind.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Missoula, Mont.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Committee to End Slave Labor in America 1
- Cooper, Samuel 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Delaware Valley Land Trust 1
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
- Doty, C. LeRoy 1
- Dyer, Henry W. 1
- Eastern State Hospital (Va.) 1
- Eller, Cynthia 1
- Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee on the Conscientious Objector 1
- Food for Europe Fund 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- Fuson, William Meeker 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Greene, Felix 1
- Guetzkow, Harold Steere 1
- Hartman, Grover L. 1
- Heifer Project 1
- Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hoover, Warren W. 1
- Houser, George M. 1
- Hunter, Allan A. (Allan Armstrong), 1893- 1
- Huston, Ora 1
- Institute for the Study of Nonviolence 1
- Isely, Philip 1
- Jacob, Philip E. 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Labour Pacifist Fellowship 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Leavens, Robert F. 1
- Lens, Sidney 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- MCC U.S. 1
- MCC U.S.. Peace Section 1
- MCC U.S.. Peace and Justice Ministries 1
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
- Macedonia Cooperative Community 1
- Mayer, Milton, 1908-1986 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Mennonite Central Committee. Peace Section 1 ∧ less
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