Letter from Charles Butcher to Caleb Foote, Dick Chase, and Russ Freeman, November 9, 1942

Has looked over a possible detached service project in Cheltenham, Md., at a reform school of colored boys. 15-17 CPS men have chosen for the work, including Butcher. The project is interracial: "there is however, a great deal to be done on the racial question at the school, the colored staff do not eat in the same dining room with the white, and they don't sleep in the same quarters. There is complete equality of food and living quarters, but still segregation, which is bad."

Place

En route to Washington (D.C.)

Extent

1 p.

Enclosure

This sheet explains a summer camp project for boys and girls of migrant families

Language

English

Subject(s)

Cheltenham School for Boys (Md.)

Civilian Public Service

Segregation--Maryland

Race discrimination--United States

Conscientious objectors--United States

World War, 1939-1945--Conscientious objectors

creator(s)

Butcher, Charles

recipient(s)

Foote, Caleb, 1917-2006

Chase, Dick

Freeman, Russ (Quaker)

Genre

Correspondence

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