United Service Organizations-related records, 1932-1980 (bulk 1941-1950).

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United Service Organizations-related records, 1932-1980 (bulk 1941-1950).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62695924

Administrative files, club histories, and other records documenting the YMCA's involvement with the USO, which was formed by the YMCA and five other civilian agencies to provide religious, recreational, welfare, and educational activities for men and women in the armed forces and in the defense industries during World War II. Materials in this series include club histories and photographs of both Army/Navy and industrial USOs, administrative files, information on associated organizations, miscellaneous records of individual USO clubs, and print materials, as well as publications and other material from the five other organizations that comprised the USO, particularly the National Jewish Welfare Board, the National Catholic Community Service and the Salvation Army.

75.4 cu. ft. (130 boxes).

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7856024

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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National Jewish Welfare Board

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Origins of the National Jewish Welfare Board (1913-1919) Organized in 1917 to meet the needs of Jewish servicemen in the Armed Forces, the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) became a national federation of local agencies and social service institutions dedicated to meeting the social, cultural, intellectual, physical and spiritual needs of the American Jewish community. The roots of JWB can be traced to the founding of the Council of Young Men's Hebrew and Kindred Associations (YMHA-KA) ...

United Service Organizations (U.S.)

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The United Service Organizations (USO) was incorporated in the state of New York on February 4, 1941, as a joint operation by the YMCA, YWCA, National Catholic Community Service, the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Traveler's Aid Association, and the Salvation Army, to provide religious, spiritual, social, welfare, educational, and entertainment services to men and women in the armed forces during World War II. The USO has continued to provide these services to the present. From t...

Salvation Army

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Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Salvation Army">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Salvation Army</a>. From the guide to the Salvation Army Combined Corps Roll and Ledger, 1926-1980, 1928-1969, (Special Collections Research Center) ...

National Board of the Young Men's Christian Associations. Armed Services Dept.

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The United States entered World War I on 6 April 1917. On that same day, John Mott, General Secretary of the International Committee of North American YMCAs, informed President Wilson that the YMCA would help provide services for the military forces. Less than a week later, the International Committee appointed the National War Work Council to coordinate this work. William S. Sloane, a New York furniture merchant and for sixteen years chairman of the YMCA's Army and Navy Committee, ...