Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Publicity material, 1940-1992

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Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Publicity material, 1940-1992

This collection contains annual reports, fund raising brochures and pamphlets, descriptions of Service Committee projects, and drawings and poems by refugees of World War II, some of them children.

One box .35 linear feet

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Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

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The Unitarian Service Committee 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. In 1945, the Universalist Service Committee was formed. During and after World War II, these two Committees aided hundreds of displaced persons in occupied countries, allowing many of them to find passage to the United States. In 1961, these two committees joined, and the present-day Unit...