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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
Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors
Scope and Contents
Materials include releases and leaflets.
Dates:
1940-1946
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
Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected Materials
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-056
Abstract
Chiefly the personal papers of conscientious objectors assigned to Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps during World War II, such as correspondence, writings, memoirs, and reference material about CPS. Also included are records of or about various CPS camps and projects.
Dates:
1939-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee to End Slave Labor in America Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
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
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
Abstract
Includes two typescripts: Amnesty and Reconciliation, and Peace Testimony: Root and Branch [annotated photocopy]; leaflet and periodical with mention of Gara's conscientious objection; slide show titled Active Nonviolence stored separately as Slide Show 2.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1972
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
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- Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources X
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 23
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 17
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 3
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- I-W service 2
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- African American civil rights workers -- History -- Sources 1
- African American pacifists -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Communal living -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Dukhobors -- History 1
- Journey of Reconciliation, 1947 1
- Lawyers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Mennonites -- Charities 1
- Mennonites -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Mental health services -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Psychiatric aides -- Training of -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- Psychiatric hospitals -- United States 1
- Psychiatric hospitals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- Quaker conscientious objectors -- Pennsylvania 1
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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
- MCC U.S.. Peace Section 1
- MCC U.S.. Peace and Justice Ministries 1
- 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
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Northern California Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Operation Freedom (Organization) 1
- Osborn, Joseph C., 1911-1993 1
- Osborne, Winslow H. 1
- Pacifica Foundation 1
- Peace Now Movement (Organization) 1
- Peace and Social Action Program 1
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