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Bent Andresen Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Andreson, Bent
Abstract
Bent Andresen registered as a conscientious objector (CO) during World War Two and was sent to a Civilian Public Service in 1944. Andresen participated in a guinea pig project in which he and several other COs lived in a refrigerated room for three months to test the impact of a high-protein diet on cold-weather conditions. He went AWOL in 1945 and was sentenced to two years in prison. Andreson was involved in various peace and justice groups throughout his lifetime.
Dates:
1928-1991
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
Charles C. Walker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-296
Abstract
Minutes, reports, writings, notes, photographs, and printed material from Walker's work as an activist and nonviolent resistance trainer. Materials have been place in series based on how the subjects were identified in their original boxes.
Dates:
1940-2000
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
Robert Horton Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Horton, Robert
Abstract
Collection includes biographical information about Robert Horton; consists primarily of materials gathered for a manuscript titled The Power of the Powerless, a series of biographies and interviews of conscientious objectors to war and those imprisoned for their beliefs.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1948-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
William Marx Kantor Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Kantor, William Marx
Overview
William Kantor was a World War I conscientious objector from Philadelphia.
Dates:
circa 1917-1920
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mary Stone McDowell Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-McDowell, Mary Stone
Dates:
1914, 1918, 1945-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
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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