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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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Charles E. Frantz Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Frantz, Charles E.
Abstract
Collection includes biographical information; letters from Frantz to his parents while he was in Civilian Public Service, 1944-1946, and 1947-1950; information about his refusal to register for the peacetime draft (Selective Service Act of 1948), and subsequent federal court proceedings and his 1949 imprisonment; newspaper clippings about draft refusers at Earlham College, 1949; a copy of Frantz's FBI file and correspondence relating to it, 1978-1980; and Frantz's writings about the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1944-1949, 1978-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
George Houser Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
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
Abraham Kaufman Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Kaufman, Abraham
Abstract
In October 1928, Kaufman became the first paid employee of the War Resisters League, eventually becoming its Executive Secretary through 1947. He co-founded the Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942-1997
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Frieda Langer Lazarus Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of correspondence and printed matter related to Lazarus's involvement as Chair of the War Resisters League's Conscientious Objector Problems Committee, 1943-1946.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-099
Abstract
Staughton Lynd and Alice Niles Lynd, Quakers, authors, and activists in the civil rights and peace movements, who worked individually and collaborated on many labor and pacifist projects.
Dates:
1965-1995
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Andy Mager Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Mager, Andy
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1981-1985
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Albon Man Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Man, Albon P.
Abstract
Albon Platt Man Jr.,was called up for the draft during World War II, but failed to register because of his conscientious objection to war, and was sentenced to three years in prison in March 1943. He was later involvemented with the Committee for Amnesty, the CCCO, the War Resisters League, and other peace groups.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Joseph Moray Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Moray, Joseph
Abstract
Correspondence of Joseph Moray, also known as Joseph Moskovitz, with his cousin, Shirley Moskovitz, and with Camille Weare.
Dates:
1935-1948, 1951-1952
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Elliston P. Morris Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Morris, Elliston P.
Abstract
Elliston P. Morris was a Quaker conscientious objector during WWII.
Dates:
1918, 1942-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Civilian Public Service 4
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- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
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- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Anderson, Jervis 1
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 1
- Bennett, Scott H. 1
- Bohn, Lewis Christian 1
- Boss, Jay 1
- Boston-Pentagon Peace Walk (1967) 1
- Break with Conscription Committee 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Charlotte Citizens for Peace (Port Charlotte, Fla.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Merom, Ind.) 1
- Coalition for Peace in the Middle East 1
- Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Covington, Hayden Cooper 1
- Daniel Seeger Defense Fund of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Denison, Paul Bert 1
- Dodge, Richard K. 1
- Early, Frances H. 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Emerson, Gloria 1
- Faulkner, Stanley 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Ferber, Michael 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Frantz, Charles 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- Gara, Larry 1
- Ginger, Ann Fagan 1
- Greene, Felix 1
- Haessler, Carl, 1888-1972 1
- Hartsough, David 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Houser, George M. 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Isely, Philip 1
- Jacob, Philip E. 1
- Jewish Peace Fellowship (U.S.) 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Labour Pacifist Fellowship 1
- Leland, Wilma Smith, 1903- 1
- Lynd, Alice 1
- Lynd, Staughton 1
- Mager, Andy, 1961- 1
- Man, Albon 1
- Moray, Joseph, 1917-1987 1
- Morris, Elliston P. (Elliston Perot), 1899-1980 1
- Moskovitz, Shirley 1
- Muslim Solidarity Committee 1
- New York State Board for Civilian Public Service 1
- Pacifist Research Bureau 1
- Peace Now Movement (Organization) 1
- Reiner, John M. 1
- Rodd, Thomas 1
- Rosenbaum, Crane 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- Schmidt, John Wesley, 1917-1997 1
- Schoenberg, Samuel 1
- Seeger, Daniel A. 1
- Shero, Jeffrey 1
- Stafford, David Benbow, 1918- 1
- Swiers, George 1
- Swift, David Everett, 1914- 1
- Syracuse Peace Council 1
- Tatum, Arlo D. 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- Trimm, Steve 1
- United States. Selective Service System 1
- Vogel, Robert S. 1
- War Resisters League 1
- War Resisters League. Conscientious Objector Problems Committee 1
- Weare, Camille 1
- Whitney, Mildred C. 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
- Wilcher, Denny, 1914-1993 1
- Winchester, Harold P. 1
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