Register of the American Friends Service Committee. Civilian Public Service records

Finding aid prepared by Loralee Sepsey

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

434 Galvez Mall

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-6003

hoover-library-archives@stanford.edu

URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives

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

Access

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.

Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1978.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], American Friends Service Committee, Civilian Public Service records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

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

box 1, folder 1-2

General Correspondence 1942-1945

Printed Matter 1940-1946

box 1, folder 3

Administrative directives 1943-1945

box 1, folder 4

American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service Newsletter 1942-1943

box 1, folder 5

Articles 1943-1945

box 1, folder 6

Essays 1940-1944

box 1, folder 7

Executive Reports 1941-1945

box 1, folder 8

General Letters 1940-1946

box 2, folder 1

Handbooks circa 1945

box 2, folder 2-3

Memoranda 1940-1946

box 2, folder 4-5

Minutes 1942-1946

box 2, folder 6

Miscellany undated

box 2, folder 7-8

Pamphlets circa 1944

box 2, folder 9

Reports 1943-1944

Serial issues published by AFSC 1940-1946

box 3, folder 1

#53 1943

box 3, folder 2

#59 1943

box 3, folder 3

#81 1944-1945

box 3, folder 4

#84 1943

box 3, folder 5

#134 1944

box 3, folder 6

Asferco News 1940-1943

box 3, folder 7

Calumet 1941-1944

box 3, folder 8

Camp Antelope 1942

box 3, folder 9

Camp Coshocton 1942

box 3, folder 10

Communique 1944

box 3, folder 11-12

The Compass 1943-1945

box 3, folder 13

Cooperative Newsletter 1944-1945

box 3, folder 14

Cooperstown 1942-1943

box 3, folder 15

Days of Our Year 1941-1942

box 3, folder 16

De Todo 1944

box 3, folder 17

Education Secretaries Newsletter 1943-1946

box 4, folder 1

Grass Roots 1942

box 4, folder 2

High Time 1945

box 4, folder 3-5

Information 1943-1946

box 4, folder 6

Journal of Unitology 1944

box 4, folder 7

Just Among Ourselves 1943

box 4, folder 8

Los Angeles Quaker undated

box 4, folder 9

The Mono 1943

box 4, folder 10

New Roots 1941-1942

box 4, folder 11

News Notes 1943

box 4, folder 12

The Open Ballot 1943

box 4, folder 13

The Patapso Peacemaker 1942

box 5, folder 1

Personnel News 1944-1945

box 5, folder 2

The Plowshare 1941

box 5, folder 3

Pocomoke Opinion 1943

box 5, folder 4

The Powellsville News undated

box 5, folder 5

The Rebel Clarion 1945

box 5, folder 6

Rhythms 1943

box 5, folder 7

Sage Opinion 1944-1945

box 5, folder 8

San Dimas Rattler 1942

box 5, folder 9

The Souvenir 1943-1945

box 5, folder 10

The Sphere 1942

box 5, folder 11

Stockley 1945

box 5, folder 12

This is Our Story 1944

box 5, folder 13-14

Whispers 1944-1945

box 5, folder 15-16

Zalduondo Newsletter 1944-1945

box 5, folder 17

Special Projects Bulletin undated

Subject File 1943-1946

box 5, folder 18

Bull Pen 1946

Scope and Contents

Newsletters, bulletins, and other informational materials for workers who worked with livestock animals through the American Friends Committee Civilian Public Service organization.

box 5, folder 19

School of Pacifist Living 1943

Scope and Contents

Guidelines, curriculum, bulletins, and other informational materials on a school promoting non-violence based in Cascade Locks, Oregon.