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Charles Bloomstein Collected Papers

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Charles Bloomstein (August 4, 1913 - October 28, 2002) was involved in a number of organizations that promoted civil rights, as well as peace, including CARE (as a staff person from 1948-1955), the NAACP, the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the War Resisters League, the Albert Einstein Institution, and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation (as director). He hoped to write books about CARE and about his close friend and colleague, Bayard Rustin, and this is reflected in his papers; unfortunately these works were never published. Bloomstein was a conscientious objector during World War II, and took part in Civilian Public Service (CPS) from June 1943 to June 1946. He was in CPS camps #46 (Big Flats, New York) and #59 (Elkton, Oregon), and also served as a human guinea pig, in medical experiments regarding malaria, at unit #115 (Boston, Massachusetts).

Gift of the children of Charles Bloomstein, 2005.

Processed by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, February 2006

Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

Biographical information.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Correspondence.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Correspondence etc. with COs who served with CPS unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1993.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Correspondence re: reunion of COs who served with CPS unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1999.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Scope and Contents

includes 1997 address list

Involvements: contribution to booklet "Massachusetts General Hospital CO's, 1943 - 1946", 1983.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Involvement with Albert Einstein Institution, 1998-.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Involvement with War Resisters League, 1960-1970.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Involvements: Miscellaneous.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Writings.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Scope and Contents

published and unpublished

Writings: co-authorship of booklet "Teaching Youth About Conflict and War", 1973.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Writings about Bayard Rustin.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Scope and Contents

includes plans for book

Writings: booklet "Robert Wallace Gilmore: A Collective Memory", 1995.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Scope and Contents

catalogued copy also in the Book Collection

Writings: master's thesis "The Western Federation of Miners, 1893 - 1907", 1939.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-5672]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": How it was organized.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-5673]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": History, Through 1946.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-5673]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Public relations.
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Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Chapters 1-7.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-5673]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Chapters 8, 10-15 .
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-5673]
General

There is no copy of chapter 9.

Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Comments about drafts.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Project proposal submitted to Ford Foundation ("Culture and Technics of the West"), 1952.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Project proposal submitted to Ford Foundation ("Aid to University Libraries in South East Asia").
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Project proposal submitted to Ford Foundation ("Library Aid to Latin America").
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Project proposal submitted to Ford Foundation ("Plows and Handtools to India and Pakistan").
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": "Report from CARE on the Distribution Within Yugoslavia of United States Government Surplus Agricultural Commodities" submitted by Paul Comly French.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Hawaiian Office and Brazilian Office.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Austrian Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Belgian Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Cyprus Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Czechoslovakian Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Eire Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Finnish Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": French Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Greek Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Hungarian Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Italian Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Japanese Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Korean Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Netherlands Mission.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-5674]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Norwegian Mission.
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Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Polish Mission.
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Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Romanian Mission.
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Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": United Kingdom Missions.
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Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Accounting Division.
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Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Remittance Division.
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Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Insurance Division and Treasury Division.
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Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Service Division.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Supply Division.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE":.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Writings of Robert Gilmore (and sign-on letter); involvements.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Writings about Robert Gilmore.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Death of Robert Gilmore – media coverage; tributes.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Michael Harrington.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Robert Pickus.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: A. Philip Randolph.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Writings of Bayard Rustin.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Speeches and reports of Bayard Rustin.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Dinners etc. in honor of Bayard Rustin; honorary degree given by NYU.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-5675]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: 75th birthday celebration for Bayard Rustin, 1987 (March 18).
Box 5 [offsite SCPC-5676]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Death of Bayard Rustin – medical report; tributes; memorial service; media coverage, 1987 (August 24).
Box 5 [offsite SCPC-5676]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Writings about Bayard Rustin.
Box 5 [offsite SCPC-5676]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: 25th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington (in tribute to A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin), Washington (DC), 1988 (August 25).
Box 5 [offsite SCPC-5676]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities, New York (New York).
Box 5 [offsite SCPC-5676]
Reference material re: colleagues and friends: The Bayard Rustin Fund Inc.
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Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Norman Thomas.
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Reference material re: colleagues and friends: Miscellaneous.
Box 5 [offsite SCPC-5676]
Reference material: general/miscellaneous.
Box 5 [offsite SCPC-5676]
Reference material: general/miscellaneous.
Box 5 [offsite SCPC-5676]

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