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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

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

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

Charles C. Walker Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-296

Abstract

Minutes, reports, writings, notes, photographs, and printed material from Walker's work as an activist and nonviolent resistance trainer. Materials have been place in series based on how the subjects were identified in their original boxes.

Dates: 1940-2000

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Julien D. Cornell Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-010

Abstract

Julien Cornell (1910-1994) practiced law in New York City, with a special interest in civil liberties. During World War II, he handled many cases for conscientious objectors, as well as advising many other COs about their various problems with the legal system. He was considered an expert on legal issues regarding conscientious objection and Civilian Public Service, and was consulted by many lawyers throughout the country for his opinions.

Dates: 1940-1947

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

Larry Gara Collected Papers

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Gara, Larry

Dates: Majority of material found within 1949-1972

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Robert Horton Collected Papers

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Horton, Robert

Abstract

Collection includes biographical information about Robert Horton; consists primarily of materials gathered for a manuscript titled The Power of the Powerless, a series of biographies and interviews of conscientious objectors to war and those imprisoned for their beliefs.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1948-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection