Unitarian Service Committee. Administrative Records, 1948

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Unitarian Service Committee. Administrative Records, 1948

This collection contains correspondence to and from Arthur Lee, the director of the Unitarian Service Committee in France, with Howard Brooks, Raymond Bragg, and other Service Committee members. There are also reports and correspondence from Germany and Hungary, and cancelled applications with photographs from people who applied to work with the Service Committee.

Two boxes (.70 linear feet)

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Unitarian Service Committee

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The Unitarian Service Committee (USC) was formed as a standing committee of the American Unitarian Association in May 1940. Its purpose was to investigate opportunities in America and abroad for humanitarian service. During and after World War II, the Unitarian Service Committee aided hundreds of displaced persons in occupied countries, allowing many of them to find passage to the United States. The present-day Unitarian Universalist Service Committee continues to endeavor to advance human right...

Brooks, Howard L.

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Bragg, Raymond B. (Raymond Bennett), 1902-1979

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Raymond Bragg (1902-1979) was born in Massachusetts and attended Bates College and Brown University . In 1927, he earned a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and a B.D. from Meadville Theological School and was ordained at the Unitarian Church of All Souls in Evanston, Illinois where he was pastor until 1930. From 1930-1935 he served as the Secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference . During these years he was also the editor of The New Humanist, and was one of the signers of t...

Lee, Arthur M. (Arthur Matthias), 1918-

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