War -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of sufferings of Flushing Friends during the American Revolution
Collection — Othertype SC-243
Identifier: SFHL-SC-243
Abstract
Contains a document listing the Sufferings of Friends belonging to Flushing Monthly Meeting given to the Committee appointed to inspect the Sufferings of Friends, 1782. Also, accounts submitted by individuals and related epistles, 1775 and 1778, from London and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings.
Dates:
1775-1789
Elizabeth Hunt Stoddard-Sennott Girl Scout papers
Collection — Othertype SC-276
Identifier: SFHL-SC-276
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains primarily correspondence between Elizabeth Hunt Stoddard-Sennott and the Girls Scouts organization concerning her planned marriage to a concientious objector during World War II. It offers insight into contemporary views towards pacifism in wartime and the influences on women's employment. Also included are copies of two papers written as a student at Antioch College.
Dates:
1938 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1948
Young Friends of North America Committee on Conscription Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-083
Abstract
The Young Friends of North America, an open fellowship of Friends between the ages of 18 and 30, established a Committee on Conscription in the fall of 1968 to facilitate communication among Friends who were involved with draft resistance. The Committee, chaired by C.O. Peter Blood, collected information from members of the Religious Society of Friends who had refused to cooperate with conscription since the 1940s, as well as Friends who were currently imprisoned for draft resistance....
Dates:
1968-1971
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
