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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
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
George Houser Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Houser, George
Abstract
Collection is primarily correspondence between Houser and others regarding amnesty for war objectors (1945-1947), the Break With Conscription committee (1946-1947), correspondence with conscientious objectors (1942-1946), the Labour Pacifist Fellowship (Britain) (1945), Civilian Public Service strike (1946), the Peace Now Movement (1943-1944), and the Resist Conscription Committee (1948).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-060
Abstract
The Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors was a non-sectarian, free advisory service for conscientious objectors to war and military service. The MBCO was set up to provide counseling and legal aid in metropolitan New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and established by the United Pacifist Committee in 1940. The group disbanded in 1980.
Dates:
1940-1980
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
Denny Wilcher Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wilcher, Denny
Overview
This collection documents the experiences of Wilcher (and his friends), while in Civilian Public Service, and after he left CPS and was imprisoned at McNeil Island Federal Prison Camp.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Jayne Tuttle Wilhelm and Paul A. Wilhelm Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wilhelm, Paul and Jane Tuttle Wilhelm
Overview
Paul A. Wilhelm (1916- ) served in three Civilian Public Service Units: Camp 3, Patapsco, Md.; Camp 52, Powelsville Maryland; and Camp 49, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) State Hospital. He registered as a Baptist conscientious objector but became a Quaker after his marriage to C. Jayne Tuttle in 1943.
Dates:
1934-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 2
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospital care -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1
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- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 3
- Civilian Public Service Union 2
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- Furnas, Paul J. 2
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Break with Conscription Committee 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Merom, Ind.) 1
- Committee to End Slave Labor in America 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Greene, Felix 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Houser, George M. 1
- Hunter, Allan A. (Allan Armstrong), 1893- 1
- Isely, Philip 1
- Jacob, Philip E. 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Labour Pacifist Fellowship 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
- Mayer, Milton, 1908-1986 1
- Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997 1
- New York State Board for Civilian Public Service 1
- Pacifist Research Bureau 1
- Peace Now Movement (Organization) 1
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 1
- Rosenbaum, Crane 1
- Schmidt, John Wesley, 1917-1997 1
- Stafford, David Benbow, 1918- 1
- Swift, David Everett, 1914- 1
- Syracuse Peace Council 1
- Tatum, Arlo D. 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981 1
- United Pacifist Committee 1
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 1
- Vogel, Robert S. 1
- Watts, Roland 1
- Whitney, Mildred C. 1
- Wilcher, Denny, 1914-1993 1
- Wilhelm, Jayne Tuttle 1
- Wilhelm, Paul A. 1
- Winchester, Harold P. 1 ∧ less
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