FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION-
USA
(FOR-USA)
SECTION II
Series E
PROGRAM AREAS & SPECIAL PROJECTS, 1927-
32 boxes
Arrangement
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Box 1 |
China Aid, 1954-1955 & 1961-1962 |
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Boxes 2-8 |
Latin America Work, 1927- |
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Boxes 9-10 |
Native Americans: Programs of 1973-1982 |
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Boxes 11-12 |
Nuclear and Germ Warfare Protests, 1954-1961 |
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Boxes 13-15 |
"Peace on Earth" Consultation & Conventions, 1965-1967 |
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Boxes 16-21 |
Race Relations, 1920s-1970s (bulk 1950s-1960s) |
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Boxes 22-28 |
Religious Peace Fellowships affiliated with the FOR, 1935-1990s |
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Box 29 |
"Shelters for the Shelterless", 1961-1969 (alternatives to fallout shelters) |
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Boxes 30-32 |
Youth/Student Work, 1940-1964 |
Box 1 China Aid, 1954-1955 & 1961-1962:
"Surplus Food for China" campaign, 1954-1955
Promotional material with grain bags
Correspondence with US government & the press
General correspondence/reactions: A - I
General correspondence/reactions: J - W
Press clippings, corres., periodical articles
Source materials
Canadian Far Eastern Newsletter & FOR campaign
"Food for China" campaign, 1961-1962:
General correspondence
Staff memos and plans
Promotion: grain bag, N.Y. Times ad, releases
Resource materials
Correspondence with US government officials
Correspondence/responses to appeals:
-A - E
-F - J
-K - Mc
-Mi - Sc
-Se - Z; negative responses
Boxes 2*-8 Latin America Work, 1927-1990s
* indicates half-size box (2.5 inches)
+ indicates that current material can be added
Box 2*
Peace efforts in Central America & Mexico by FOR & other
groups, 1927-1932
Scrapbook of Charles A. Thomson, FOR Latin America Secretary,
1929-1932
Box 3
"The FOR and Latin America, 1919-1960" by J.N. Syare; lists of
sources found in FOR archives
General resource materials on Latin America
Nonviolence and revolution: articles & reports by Smiley,
Goss-Mayr et al., 1962-1969
Correspondence (general) 1962-1966
Correspondence of Sidney Lens & Alfred Hassler, 1962-1965
Releases, proposals, etc. 1962-1964
Conference on "The Latin American Revolution," New York, November
9-10, 1962
"Issues Conference on Latin America" held by the Consultative Peace
Council, Nyack, December 1964
Conferences & seminar: Mexico 1964, Chicago 1965, Montevideo
1966
Latin America project & committee:
Proposals, plans, corres. 1962-1966 (2 folders)
Contacts (lists and notes)
North American Committee on Latin America (FOR)
Correspondence with sponsors, 1964
NACLA (North American Committee on Latin America), organized 1966
Box 4 Cuba, 1956, 1960-1963, 1965
Articles & releases, 1960-1962 (2 folders)
Correspondence (general), 1961-1962 (2 folders)
Correspondence: FOR staff, Executive Committee & National
Council, 1960-1962
Correspondence with Cubans, 1956, 1961-1963, 1965
FOR official statements on US-Cuban relations
FOR releases re Cuban situation (some in Spanish)
Humanitarian aid
Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961
"We cannot condone this act" (N.Y. Times ad 4/23/61)
Newspaper ads (various) including "open letters" to President
Kennedy
Ad for Havana paper: "A Message to the Cuban People" (rejected);
corres. with signers, 1961
Reconciliation team to Cuba (proposed) 1961
Box 5
Cuban missile crisis; public appeal by well-known persons, 1962
US-Cuban relations: statements and reports from other groups &
individuals
Dominican Republic: US intervention, FOR team, elections,
1965-1966
Dominican Republic & Puerto Rico: Smiley's visit with Juan Bosch;
Puerto Rican FOR, 1965-1967
International FOR work in Latin America, 1960s-1970s
Reports, trips to Latin America, 1960s
Reports, trips to Latin America, 1970s
Discussion re sending Goss-Mayrs to South America, 1960s
Program priorities & Latin America work, 1962
Goss-Mayr correspondence, 1962-1973 (2 folders)
Goss-Mayr reports on Latin America, 1962-1972
Correspondence of Richard Chartier, Glenn Smiley & John Swomley,
1969
Box 6
South American Committee of IFOR:
Documents, 1969-1973
Correspondence of Earl Smith, 1969-1977 (2 folders)
Consultation & Seminars on Nonviolence, 1966-1970
Seminars on Nonviolence in Columbia, Costa Rica & Mexico, October
1968
Conference for Coordination
of Nonviolent Action in Latin
America, Alajuela, Costa Rica, 1971
Conference on Nonviolent Liberation in Latin America, Medellin,
Columbia, 1974
Internat'l mtg. of Latin American Bishops, Bogotá, 1977
Document on "Evangelical Nonviolence"
Latin America work, 1970s-1980s
Bibliographies on nonviolence in Spanish & Portuguese
Conferences, trips, Congressional testimony (non-FOR)
General correspondence & programs of FOR
Pérez-Esquivel, Adolfo:
Trips to Europe and US, 1976
Imprisonment and appeals for release, 1977-1978
Letters of appeal for release, A-Z
Nobel Peace Laureate, 1980; visits to US
Material about Pérez-Esquivel
Box 7
Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ):
Correspondence & reports, 1972-1979, 1983
Releases; campaigns, 1973-1978
Seminario de No-Violencia, Buenos Aires, 1975; Encuentro, Bogotá, 1978
European support groups, 1975-1980
Central America:
General correspondence & programs, 1976-1986
Nicaragua, 1978
Pledge of Resistance contingency plan, 1983-1985
Resource materials, 1983-1985
Task Force on Latin America & the Caribbean (TFLAC)
General material & mailings:
1982-1983
1984
1985
1986-1989
1990-1992
Box 8+
1993
1994
1995-1996
1997-
TFLAC: Minutes of Steering Committee, 1985-
TFLAC: Delegations to Central America, 1983-1985
TFLAC: Delegations to Latin America, 1988-
TFLAC: North/South exchange programs: Americas Connections,
Voluntarios Solidarios
TFLAC: Panama Campaign, 1991-
TFLAC: Sebastián Acevedo Anti-Torture Movement (Chile)
1991-
TFLAC: Urgent Action Network, 1983-
TFLAC: Addenda (material from other sources)
SIPAZ: Servicio Internacional para la Paz/ International Service for
Peace (Chiapas conflict): 1997-
+ indicates that current material can be added
Boxes 9-10* Native Americans: Programs of 1973-1982
* indicates half-size box (2.5 inches)
Box 9
Indian projects & conferences, 1973-1982
Staff memos, 1973-1976
General correspondence, 1973-1978, 1982
Consultations on American Indians, 1973
Conference on Native Americans, January 1974
Resource materials (produced/distributed by FOR)
Wounded Knee (Pine Ridge Reservation, SD), 1973:
"Anatomy of a project" (report & documentation)
Ad in N. Y. Times 3/18/73; responses from readers
Press conference & forum, April 18, 1973
Mediation team & task force
US government agreements & communications
General correspondence
Reports; Fellowship articles
Follow-up correspondence & proposals, 1973-1975, 1978
Crow Dog (Leonard Peltier) 1976-1977
Navajo Coalition for Liberation, 1974
Box 10*
Tuscarora Indians (N. Carolina); Mike Little Wolf & attorney
William Gibbs, 1973-1974
Oklahoma AIM workshop training project, 1974
Red Wind School, California, 1978
Washington (state) Indian rights, 1974
Miscellany
Boxes 11-12* Nuclear and Germ Warfare Protests,
1954-1961
* indicates half-size box (2.5 inches)
Box 11
Hydrogen bomb protests (misc.). 1954-1958
NVA (Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons):
Minutes & releases, 1957-1958 (2 folders)
Correspondence, etc., 1957-1958
Golden Rule trip to Eniwetok, May 1958
Visit to Moscow (projected), 1958
"Men against the bomb" (projected pamphlet edited by H. Jack & A. Hassler), 1958
CNVA (Committee for Nonviolent Action):
Golden Rule and Phoenix delegation to Geneva (re nuclear tests in the Pacific), Dec. 1958
Correspondence, etc., 1959
Correspondence, etc., 1960-1961
FOR protests (sponsored or initiated by FOR):
Vigil at Canaveral, January-July 1958:-Correspondence & misc.
-Log and scrapbook of Charles Walker
-Press clippings and releases
Box 12*
Appeal & Vigil at Fort Detrick (germ warfare):-Correspondence, minutes, etc., 1959-1961
-Articles, leaflets, releases
Other protests:
Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, Nov. 1957
Cheyenne Appeal (against ICBM base), 1958-1959
Boxes 13-15* "Peace on Earth" Consultation &
Convocations, 1965-1967
(Co-sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions)
* indicates half-size box (2.5 inches)
Box 13
Moral and technological implications of Peace on Earth:
Background materials
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (corres. of Glenn
Smiley)
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (corres. of Dorothy
Nyland)
Correspondence about finances
Consultation of Religious Leaders, New York, 1965:
Program, registrants, speeches
Original plans
Correspondence with speakers, A-Z
Convocations (in other locales) 1965-1967:
General correspondence, schedules, etc.
Inter-office memos
Advisory Committee
Biblical/theological focus
Prospectus and comments
Mailings
Responses of interested people (2 folders)
Miscellaneous corres. of Dorothy Nyland
Box 14
Reports and comments
Convocation speakers: bios & correspondence:
Berrigan, Philip (speeches included)
Bloy, Myron B.
Ferry, W.H. (bibliography & speech included)
Hammill, Robert H.
Hilton, Mary Alice (articles, speeches included)
Lens, Sidney
O'Gorman, Ned
Rogers, Herbert (speech included)
Theobald, Robert (corres. & "Campus Dialogue")
Theobald, Robert (speeches, writings)
Records of Convocations held, 1965-1967
Amherst, MA
Atlanta, GA
Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland, OH
Denver, CO
Detroit, MI
East Lansing, MI
Los Angeles, CA
Box 15*
Louisville, KY
Massanetta Springs, VA
Portland, OR
Seattle, WA
Tacoma, WA
Vancouver, BC
Washington, DC
West Chicago/Naperville, IL
* indicates half-size box (2.5 inches)
Boxes 16-21 Race Relations, 1920s-1970s (bulk 1950s-1960s)
Box 16
General & miscellaneous material, 1920s-1960s (2 folders)
General race relations work, 1942-1944
Race Relations/Racial-Industrial Dept., 1943-1948
Japanese Americans, 1941-1945:
FOR memos & policy statements
FOR work in Relocation Centers
FOR work: Pen pals program
Relocation Centers: Reports, letters
Resettlement after leaving Centers
Southern work (general & misc.), 1954-1970:
FOR reports & releases, 1954-1964
Correspondence of Glenn Smiley, John Swomley, Alfred Hassler et al., 1955-1958 (2 folders)
Correspondence of Glenn Smiley, 1959-1965 (2 folders)
Evaluation & proposals, 1954-1967
Box 17 Locales & individuals
Alabama (miscellaneous)
Albany, GA (includes Smiley visit, 1962)
Atlanta, GA: Conferences, 1956-1957
Birmingham, AL, 1958-1959
Detroit, MI: Race riots, 1943
Howard, Asbury: First amendment case, 1959
King, Martin Luther, Jr.:
Correspondence with Smiley et al., 1956-1967
Articles by & about King (2 folders)
Tributes, 1968 -
Lafayette, Bernard (SCLC et al.) 1970-
Lawson, James M., 1958-
Lawson, James M. & Vanderbilt University, 1960
Little Rock, AR, 1957-1958
Montgomery, AL, 1956-1961, 1975
Box 18
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA):
Institutes, 1956-1960
Newsletters from MIA, 1956-1957
Orangeburg, SC, 1956-1958
Shuttlesworth, Fred, 1957-1963
Tallahassee, FL, 1956-1960
Tennessee (miscellaneous)
Miscellaneous individuals: African Americans, A - Z
Miscellaneous individuals: White Americans, A &endash; Z
Southern organizations & institutions, 1955-1968
Alabama Council on Human Relations
Citizens councils & similar groups
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery
Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, TN
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC):
Correspondence (Smiley et al.); literature, 1957-1961
Literature; Poor People's Campaign; corres. 1965-1968
Southern Conference Educational Fund
Tuskeegee Civic Association
Box 19 Projects/programs of FOR & other groups
The Brothers, Albany, NY, 1966
Civil Rights Documentation Project, 1967
Comic book, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story:
production & funding, 1956-1958
Comic book: promotion, distribution, influence
Committee to Aid Bombed Christians of the South:
Correspondence, 1957-1960
Appeal letters
Contributors et al.
Distribution of funds
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), 1942-1961
FAIR (Fellowship Appeal for Interracial Reconciliation),
1947-1948
Fellowship articles on race, 1942-1966; bibliographies
Film, Walk to Freedom (Montgomery), 1956-1957
Freedom rides, 1961
Institutes, workshops, conferences:
Various, 1939-1943
Race & Non-Violence Workshop, San Francisco, 1943
Various, 1944-1959
Interracial Workshop, Washington, 1947
Box 20
Interns in Non-Violence Reconciliation: Tour into North Carolina
& Alabama, 1960
Journey of Reconciliation, 1947
March on Washington, 1963
Ministry of Reconciliation, Jackson, MI, 1964
Nonviolence training
Pledge Brotherhood Campaign, 1950
Publications: Pamphlets & leaflets
Student movement in the South, 1960-1967
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960-1968
Youth March for Integrated Schools, Washington, 1958
Box 21 Resource material
Articles, etc.:
Integration (general & miscellaneous)
Integration in education, 1955-1961
Religion and integration, 1954-1963
The South, 1955-1963
Press clippings, 1955-1961
Bus boycotts (Alabama)
Bus boycotts (Tallahassee, Atlanta, New Orleans)
Freedom Riders
Integration (general)
Integration in education
Sit-ins & student movement
Southern newspapers (misc. subjects)
Addenda:
"Race Relations Handbook" by Richard Deats, 1957
"Nonviolent methods in the American civil rights conflict" by Bo Wirmark, 1966
Photographs (photocopies), 1947-1958
Boxes 22-28* Religious Peace Fellowships affiliated with
the FOR, 1935-1990s
The arrangement is roughly in several chronological groups, within which the affiliated fellowships are alphabetized by key words in caps. FOR staff members & denominational officers are usually given.
Box 22 List of affiliates with dates, status, etc.
General correspondence & miscellany, 1935-1953 (Martin England et al.)
General corres., 1951-1956, of Swomley (2 folders)
BAPTIST Pacifist Fellowship, 1940-1959 (Hassler)
BAPTIST Pacifist Fellowship, 1959-1960 (Swomley)
BAPTIST Pacifist Fellowship: Membership lists, 1950s
CONGREGATIONAL-CHRISTIAN Pacifist Fellowship, 1950s
DISCIPLES Peace Fellowship, 1935-1960
E.U.B. Peace Fellowship (Evangelical United Brethren), 1959
EPISCOPAL Pacifist Fellowship, 1950-1961 (Ray Arvio et al.)
Fellowship of ETHICAL Pacifists, 1957-1961 (Hassler et al.)
JEWISH Peace Fellowship: miscellany, 1940s-1960
LIBERAL Religious Peace Fellowship
(Unitarian-Universalist) 1956-1958
LUTHERAN Peace Fellowship, 1941-1958;
Membership lists included
Box 23 Fellowship of METHODIST Pacifists (FMP):
Background of Methodist pacifism
Brochures, leaflets, etc. 1950s
Founding meeting; Executive Committee minutes, reports, etc. 1950-1964
Membership records, 1952-1967
Questionnaire on the Christian and war, 1955-1956
Corres. (files of John Swomley) 1950-1955 (7 folders)
Box 24 Corres. (files of John Swomley) 1956-1959
Corres. (files of Rita & Herman Will):
-FOR national office, 1959-1960
-Executive Com. of FMP, 1959-1960
-General, 1959-1960
-FOR national office & Executive Com., 1961-1962
Box 24 -General, 1961-1962
cont. Corres. (files of Franklin Terry):
-FOR national office, 1961-1963, 1966
-Executive Com. of FMP, 1962-1967
-General, 1962-1967
NEW CHURCH Pacifist Fellowship: statement, report, corres., 1940, 1945-1946, 1961
Peace Fellowship of PRESBYTERIANS: statement, minutes, corres., n.d., 1945-1946, 1950
SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN Peace Fellowship: corres., lists, leaflets, 3 newsletters. 1949-1960
UNITARIAN Pacifist Fellowship: corres., lists,
1951-1954
Files of Alfred Hassler et al.:
General corres., 1957-1963
BAPTIST Pacifist Fellowship, 1960-1961
CATHOLIC Peace Fellowship, 1965-1967 (Boehmer's corres.)
CATHOLIC Peace Fellowship, 1969-1974 (Hassler's corres.)
Box 25 EPISCOPAL Peace Fellowship, 1970
(Brick & Hassler corres.)
JEWISH Peace Fellowship, 1965-1971 (Brick & Boehmer corres.)
LUTHERAN Peace Fellowship, 1958-1969
Fellowship of METHODIST Pacifists, 1959-1967
Peace Fellowship of PRESBYTERIANS, 1958-1964
UNITED CHURCH Peace Fellowship, 1959-1961 (includes Newsletters)
Files of John Heidbrink, 1961-1967:
General correspondence
BAPTIST Peace Fellowship
CATHOLIC Peace Fellowship (2 folders)
DISCIPLES Peace Fellowship
EPISCOPAL Pacifist Fellowship
EPISCOPAL Pacifist Fellowship (Boehmer corres. re new EPF exec. secy.)
JEWISH Peace Fellowship
Box 26 LIBERAL (UUA) Religious Peace Fellowship
LUTHERAN Peace Fellowship
Fellowship of METHODIST Pacifists
Box 26 REFORMED CHURCH Peace Fellowship
cont. SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN Peace Fellowship
UNITED CHURCH Peace Fellowship
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN Peace Fellowship
Files of Stauffer Curry & Mildred Nelson, 1967-1972:
General corres. & mailings
BAPTIST Peace Fellowship (2 folders)
CATHOLIC Peace Fellowship
CHURCH OF GOD Peace Fellowship
Box 27 DISCIPLES Peace Fellowship
EPISCOPAL Peace Fellowship
Fellowship of ETHICAL Pacifists
JEWISH Peace Fellowship
LIBERAL (UUA) Religious Peace Fellowship
LUTHERAN Peace Fellowship
METHODIST Peace Fellowship
SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN Peace Fellowship
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN Peace Fellowship
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN Peace Fellowship (UPPF):
UPPF (staff secretary's files):
-National Committee corres., 1968-1970
-National Committee minutes, 1968-1970
-General correspondence, 1968-1970
-Membership lists, 1960s
-Annual breakfasts at General Assembly,
1968-1971
-Draft counseling service, 1967-1970
Box 28*+ Files of Richard Deats et al., 1972-
General material; various Fellowships
BUDDHIST Peace Fellowship
DISCIPLES Peace Fellowship; paper on " Pacifism in the Christian Church"
JEWISH Peace Fellowship
Box 29 "Shelters for the Shelterless", 1961-1969
(alternatives to fallout shelters)
General material, promotion, donations
Administrative Committee, 1961-1969
Publicity: newspaper ads, TV spots, 1962
India: miscellaneous contacts, 1962
India: Ralph R. Keithahn correspondence, 1962-1967
India: Rural life, villagers making houses, festive occasions & misc. PHOTOS
India: Vadala Mission project, 1962-1965
India: Vadala Mission project. PHOTOS related to correspondence in the folder
India: Franklin Zahn correspondence, 1963-1964
Tanganyika project (proposed), 1962
Zahn correspondence with Glenn Smiley, 1962, 1965-1967
Third world housing conditions/programs.
PHOTOS from the UN and Church World Service.
Boxes 30-32 Youth/Student Work, 1940-1964
Box 30 General material, 1940-1948 (Swomley files)
United Christian Youth Movement, 1946-1947 (Swomley)
Youth FOR (branch organization), 1955-1958
College work: conference, etc., 1955-1957 (Smiley files)
Youth Advisory Committee, 1956-1957 (Smiley & Moody)
Correspondence & miscellany, 1957-1961 (Smiley & Moody)
Correspondence, 1958-1960 (Smiley)
Youth Peace Fellowship, 1959-1961 (merged with FOR Oct. 1961)
Charles Jones, Student Secretary, 9/60-1/61: reports, mailings, corres. (2 folders)
Brewster Kneen, Youth Director, 1961-1964:
Reports & staff memos
Mailings
Box 31 Correspondence, A - Z (10 folders)
Box 32 FOR Youth Committee
Mustard Seed (for high school students)
Manuscripts & correspondence
Ecumenical Student Conference on Christian World Mission, 1963
European Peace Seminar, 1963: Youth section
National Student Assembly, YMCA & YWCA, 1962
North American Ecumenical Youth Assembly, 1961
Program ideas
Student Christian Movement in New England
Student Peace Union: general material
Student Peace Union: corres., 1960-1963
Note: For the work of other Youth/Student directors, see their respective files as follows:
-Bayard Rustin in Series D, Boxes 51-52
-Ronald J. Young in Series D, Boxes 59-79
-Dorothy Hassler in Series D, Box 36
-Jo Becker in Series C, Box 61
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