Philadelphia Area Archives

Start Over Repository Swarthmore College Peace Collection Subject Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- Sources Year 1970 to 1974

Larry Gara Collected Papers, 1949-1972 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.02 linear ft. (0.25 linear inches)
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.

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Lee Stern Papers, 1936-1992 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 linear ft. (2 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Lee Stern (1915-1992), was a Quaker pacifist, conscientious objector to war, involved in peace groups and organizations, and a teacher of nonviolence.

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Charles E. Frantz Collected Papers, 1944-1949, 1978-1980 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
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 Dukhobors, a pacifist sect.

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Wilmer Brandt Collected Papers, 1952-2007 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.2 linear ft. (0.2 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Brandt was a conscientious objector to war, a Quaker, and interested in peace throughout his life.

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Jayne Tuttle Wilhelm and Paul A. Wilhelm Collected Papers, 1934-1978 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.04 linear ft. (12.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Paul A. Wilhelm (1916- ) served in three Civilian Public Service Units: Camp 3, Patapsco, Md.; Camp 52, Powelsville Maryland; and Camp 49, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) State Hospital. He registered as a Baptist conscientious objector but became a Quaker after his marriage to C. Jayne Tuttle in 1943.

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Joseph C. Osborn Collected Papers, 1936-1986 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.29 linear ft. (3.5 linear inches.)
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.

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