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American Friends Service Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Friends Service Committee
Abstract
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.
Dates:
1917-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bent Andresen Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Andreson, Bent
Abstract
Bent Andresen registered as a conscientious objector (CO) during World War Two and was sent to a Civilian Public Service in 1944. Andresen participated in a guinea pig project in which he and several other COs lived in a refrigerated room for three months to test the impact of a high-protein diet on cold-weather conditions. He went AWOL in 1945 and was sentenced to two years in prison. Andreson was involved in various peace and justice groups throughout his lifetime.
Dates:
1928-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bennett W. Andrews and Florence N. Andrews Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-209
Abstract
Bennett Andrews was an absolutist conscientious objector during World War II. He served a five year sentence Danbury Prison, a federal penitentiary, in Connecticut. There he worked in a number of positions in the prison. Bennett Andrews was released from prison on July 11, 1946 and received amnesty from President Truman in 1947. Florence Andrews (born in 1913) married Bennett on July 22, 1938. She was also a strong pacifist, who fully supported her husband's C.O. stance.
Dates:
1940-1950, 1979-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Harold Barton Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Barton, Harold
Abstract
In the early 1940s National Mental Health Foundation originated in 1944-1945 when Harold Barton and three associates, serving at Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), announced plans for a national campaign to improve the conditions in mental hospitals. The exposure of these conditions through the efforts of men serving in CPS, and their efforts to be a nonviolent presence in mental institutions, began a new movement in mental health care in the U.S. The National Mental...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1944-1949
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
Horace Champney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract
Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.
Dates:
1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979
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
Eichel Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-131
Overview
The Eichel Family papers provide a unique glimpse into the lives of conscientious objectors and peace activists from one family over two generations, from 1916 onward. Julius Eichel, David Eichel and Albert Eichel were all C.O.s during WWI. Julius Eichel and his wife Esther Eichel protested WWII. Their son Seymour Eichel also served time in prison for his refusal to serve in the military in the 1950s.
Dates:
1918 - 2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Episcopal Peace Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-118
Overview
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF), was founded November 1939 as an association of pacifist members of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The organization sought to discover and unite pacifists within the church and to influence its membership regarding Christianity and peace. The EPF has sponsored educational projects (publications, lectures, workshops, conferences), provided counseling and financial support for conscientious objectors, and contributed to pacifist projects in other...
Dates:
1936-2009; Majority of material found within 1936 - 2009
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 45
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 17
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 14
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 14
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 6
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 6
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 5
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 3
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objectors -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- I-W service 2
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 2
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 2
- African American Quakers 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- History -- Sources 1
- Americans -- Canada -- History -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Chester County (Pa.) 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors 1
- Conscientious objectors -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Dukhobors -- History 1
- Environmentalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Evil, Non-resistance to -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to 1
- Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 1
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Liberation (New York, N.Y. : 1956) 1
- Mennonites -- Charities 1
- Mennonites -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Mennonites -- Missions -- History -- Sources 1
- Mennonites -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Mental health services -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence in America : a documentary history 1
- Pacifists 1
- Pacifists -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Episcopal Church -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History 1
- Peace walks and marches 1
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Philosophers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Printers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners -- Connecticut -- Danbury -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Psychiatric aides -- Training of -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- United States 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Virginia -- Williamsburg -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychologists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Public radio -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker conscientious objectors -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- Glens Falls -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Ohio -- Yellow Springs -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Oregon -- Eugene -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Feasterville -- History -- Sources 1 ∧ less
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- English 46
- Undetermined 1
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- Civilian Public Service 13
- American Friends Service Committee 6
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 6
- War Resisters League 6
- A Quaker Action Group 3
- Byberry State Hospital (Pa.) 3
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 3
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 3
- Furnas, Paul J. 3
- Stern, Lee, 1915-1992 3
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 2
- Bromley, Ernest 2
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Civilian Public Service Union 2
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 2
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 2
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 2
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 2
- Gara, Larry 2
- Kantor, William Marx 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- Lens, Sidney 2
- Lunde, Erling H. 2
- Lynd, Alice 2
- Lynd, Staughton 2
- Man, Albon 2
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Peacemaker Movement 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
- Ahimsa Farm 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- American Forum for Socialist Education 1
- American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience 1
- American Friends Service Committee. New England Regional Office 1
- Ames, Winslow 1
- Anderson, Jervis 1
- Andrews, Bennett W., 1906-1994 1
- Andrews, Florence N., 1913- 1
- Anglican Pacifist Fellowship 1
- Anh, Le Thi 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Ashley, Bruce 1
- Axford, Roger W. 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Barton, Harold E. L., 1916-2005 1
- Bennett, Scott H. 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Blaxall, Arthur W. 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Bohn, Lewis Christian 1
- Boss, Jay 1
- Boston-Pentagon Peace Walk (1967) 1
- Bourgeois, Roy, 1938- 1
- Brandt, Wilmer, 1920- 1
- Break with Conscription Committee 1
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 1
- Brown, John Pairman 1
- Canadian Friends Service Committee 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Champney, Beulah 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Champney, Ken 1
- Charlotte Citizens for Peace (Port Charlotte, Fla.) 1
- Children's Creative Response to Conflict Program 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp #103 (Missoula, Mont.) 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 (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Mental Hygiene Program 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
- Coalition for Peace in the Middle East 1
- Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Cook, Cara 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Covington, Hayden Cooper 1
- Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965 1
- Daniel Seeger Defense Fund of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Delaware Valley Land Trust 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Denison, Paul Bert 1
- Dodge, Richard K. 1
- Early, Frances H. 1
- Eastern State Hospital (Va.) 1
- Eichel family 1
- Eichel, Esther 1
- Eichel, Seymour 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
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