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Roy C. Kepler Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-185
Abstract
Roy Kepler was a radical pacifist and conscientious objector during World War II, owner of Kepler Books in Menlo Park, California, involved for many years with the War Resisters League, one of the founders of the Pacifica Foundation and public radio in California.
Dates:
1940-1985
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
Mennonite Central Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Mennonite Central Committee
Abstract
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) was formed when representatives of various Mennonite conferences met July 27-28, 1920, in Elkhart (Indiana), and pledged to aid hungry people, including Mennonites, in Russia and Ukraine.Since then thousands have served with MCC worldwide on relief, peace and development projects.
Dates:
1940-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section / U.S. Peace Section Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Mennonite Central Committee-Peace Section
Abstract
The Peace Section of the Mennonite Central Committee was established in January 1942, as successor to the Mennonite Central Peace Committee organized in 1939. It served as an agency for counseling on problems related to conscription and the draft, a representation to government, a center for study, research, and writing regarding the peace position, and a central agency for peace education.
Dates:
1942-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Miles, Ward and Alice Calder Miles
Scope and Contents
Includes two oral history interview (4 p., 2007 and 2 p., 2003) of Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles; information about the Civilian Public Service unit at the Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa.; manuscript "Out of Sight Out of Mind" by Ward C. Miles; information about a psychiatric aide training project conducted for the Rockefeller Foundation under the auspices of the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas in 1948; reference material about mental hospitals and psychiatric aide...
Dates:
1944-1948, 2003, 2007
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
Juanita Morrow Nelson and Wallace F. Nelson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-262
Abstract
Juanita and Wally Nelson were civil rights activists, tax resisters, simple living proponents, farmers, and writers/speakers for peace.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1923-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Northern California Service Board for Conscientious Objectors Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Northern California Service Board-Conscientious Objectors
Abstract
Includes printed correspondence, minutes of meetings, memoranda, brochures; correspondents include Allen H. Barr and Robert F. Leavens.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940-1954
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Joseph C. Osborn Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Osborn, Joseph C
Abstract
Collection includes biographical information, correspondence, information about Osborn's academic work at Purdue University, 1936-1942, and about his draft orders and conscientious objection status; and information about Osborn's time in Civilian Public Service and CPS reunions in 1983 and 1986.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1936-1986
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 23
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- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 3
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- Civilian Public Service 13
- Byberry State Hospital (Pa.) 3
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Peacemaker Movement 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Wilhelm, Paul A. 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Ahimsa Farm 1
- Albert, Alfred, 1908- 1
- Alexander, Howard W. (Howard Wright), 1911-1985 1
- Alexander, Mary Alice 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience 1
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 1
- Angell, Ernest, 1889-1973 1
- Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors 1
- Axford, Roger W. 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Barton, Harold E. L., 1916-2005 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Brandt, Wilmer, 1920- 1
- Break with Conscription Committee 1
- Briggs, Franklin Humphrey, 1916- 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 1
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 1
- Chicago Conference on Social Action (1943) 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 (Missoula, Mont.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Mental Hygiene Program 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Committee to End Slave Labor in America 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Cooper, Samuel 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- Covington, Hayden Cooper 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Dyer, Henry W. 1
- Eastern State Hospital (Va.) 1
- Eller, Cynthia 1
- Fangmeier, Robert 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Food for Europe Fund 1
- Forster, Clifford 1
- Frantz, Charles 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace (U.S.) 1
- Fuson, William Meeker 1
- Gara, Larry 1
- Guetzkow, Harold Steere 1
- Heifer Project 1
- Hill, Lewis K. 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Houser, George M. 1
- Hunter, Allan A. (Allan Armstrong), 1893- 1
- Institute for the Study of Nonviolence 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Koinonia Farm 1
- Labour Pacifist Fellowship 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lazarus, Leonard 1
- Leavens, Robert F. 1
- MCC U.S. 1
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- MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
- Macedonia Cooperative Community 1
- Mayer, Milton, 1908-1986 1
- Mennonite Central Committee 1
- Mennonite Central Committee. Peace Section 1
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Miles, Alice Calder 1
- Miles, Ward C., 1922- 1
- Moray, Joseph, 1917-1987 1
- Morris, Elliston P. (Elliston Perot), 1899-1980 1
- Moskovitz, Shirley 1
- National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 1
- National Mental Health Foundation 1
- Nelson, Clarence T. R. 1
- Nelson, Juanita 1
- Nelson, Wallace F. 1
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- Operation Freedom (Organization) 1
- Osborn, Joseph C., 1911-1993 1
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- Pacifica Foundation 1
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