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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.

Overview and metadata sections

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).

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of Charles Bloomstein.

Gift of the children of Charles Bloomstein, 2005.

For the catalog record for this collection, and to find materials on similar topics, search the library's online catalog.

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

includes 1997 address list

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

published and unpublished

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

includes plans for book

Writings: booklet "Robert Wallace Gilmore: A Collective Memory", 1995.
Box 1 [off-site box 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 [off-site box SCPC-5672]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": How it was organized.
Box 2 [off-site box SCPC-5673]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": History, Through 1946.
Box 2 [off-site box SCPC-5673]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Public relations.
Box 2 [off-site box SCPC-5673]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Chapters 1-7.
Box 2 [off-site box SCPC-5673]
Writings: manuscript etc. "History of CARE": Chapters 8, 10-15 .
Box 2 [off-site box SCPC-5673]
General

There is no copy of chapter 9.

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

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