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Title: American Friends Service Committee, Civilian Public Service records
Date (inclusive): 1940-1946
Collection Number: XX228
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes
(2.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Bulletins, serial issues, reports, handbooks, correspondence, memoranda, and other printed materials relating to the American
Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Civilian Public Service, an organization founded to provide alternatives for conscientious
objectors to war and members of peace churches during World War II by establishing work camps to conduct duties of national
importance.
Creator:
American Friends Service Committee. Civilian Public Service
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1978.
[Identification of item], American Friends Service Committee, Civilian Public Service records, [Box no., Folder no. or title],
Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
American Society of Friends organization.
| 1917 | American Friends Service Committee founded to provide alternatives for conscientious objectors to war and members of peace churches. |
| 1917-1918 | AFSC provides relief during World War I. |
| 1930-1945 | Provides relief in Nazi Germany, Spain, and France. |
| 1918 | Committee begins working in Serbia, Russia, Poland, Germany, and Austria to provide relief following World War I. |
| 1937-1943 | Builds Penn-Craft community for unemployed coal miners in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. |
| 1941-1947 | Civilians perform duties of national importance in CPS camps. |
| 1940 | Congress passes an act creating Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps for conscientious objectors to fighting in World War II. |
| 1950-1953 | Provides relief during Korean War. |
| 1947 | Helps refugees in India and the Gaza Strip. |
| 1955 | Publication of the book Speak Truth to Power: A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence. |
| 1960-present | Works with civil rights and peace movements across the United States and internationally. |
| 1966 | Creates programs to help civilians in North and South Vietnam. |
| 1956 | Provides relief during Hungarian Revolution. |
| 1967-1970 | Provides relief during Nigerian Biafran War. |
| 1954-1962 | Provides relief during Algerian Civil War. |
| 1970-present | AFSC continues to provide peaceful alternatives to war and relief in war-torn countries. |
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of newsletters, reports, bulletins, correspondence, serial issues, and other printed matter relating
to the American Friends Service Committee's Civilian Public Service branch, conscientious objectors to World War II, compulsory
non-violent alternatives to serving in the war for members of established peace churches in the United States and aforementioned
conscientious objectors to war.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Peace
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
Conscientious objectors -- United States
Pacifism
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors
Service, Compulsory non-military -- United States
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work