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American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service / Prison Service Committee Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-002
Abstract 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

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

Raymond Binford and Helen Binford Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Binford, Raymond and Helen
Abstract

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

Wilmer Brandt Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Brandt, Wilmer
Scope and Contents

This small collection is primarily made up of correspondence with Jeannette Rankin and others, including Round Robin letters sent to (and received from) friends, most likely those who were in CPS with him.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1952-2007

Center on Conscience and War Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-025
Abstract

Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.

Dates: 1940-2015

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 - 2017

Civilian Public Service Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-008
Scope and Contents The records of the CPSU were deposited in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection in June of 1946 by Robert Beach of Philadelphia, a CPSU member. A small portion of the records came to the Peace Collection in 1976 from historian Charles Chatfield. These records originated in the larger collection of CPS records given to Chatfield by Gordon Streib (see Accession 76A-84). Records include a proposed constitution, scattered minutes, correspondence (1943-1945), CPSU Newsletter, statements,...
Dates: 1944-1946

Committee to End Slave Labor in America Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee to End Slave Labor in America
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, flyers, reports.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1946

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

Henry LeRoy Finch Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-195
Abstract

Henry Leroy (Roy) Finch Jr. was a pacifist, conscientious objector to World War II, philosopher and writer.

Dates: 1933-1995

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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
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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
Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History 1
Philosophers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Psychiatric hospital care -- History -- Sources 1
Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
Psychiatric hospitals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Psychiatric hospitals -- Virginia -- Williamsburg -- History -- Sources 1
Public radio -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
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
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Sources 1
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Names
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 5
American Friends Service Committee 4
French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 4
Barr, Allen H. 3
Furnas, Paul J. 3
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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
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