Also in January 1918, FOR began publication of The World Tomorrow, with Norman Thomas as its first editor. In 1918, FOR and the American Federation of Labor formed Brookwood Labor College, which lasted until 1937. The American Civil Liberties Union developed out of FOR's conscientious objectors program and the Emergency Committee for Civil Liberties.

History Origins in World War I and activities through the 1940s įOR in the USA was formed initially in opposition to the entry of the United States into World War I.

Both the FOR in the United States and similarly-named organizations in other countries are affiliated with the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. movements, it is an interfaith body, though its historic roots are in Christianity.

Its programs and projects involve domestic as well as international issues, and generally emphasize nonviolent alternatives to conflict and the rights of conscience. Muste, Jane Addams and Bishop Paul Jones, and claims to be the 'largest, oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in the United States.' Norman Thomas, at first skeptical of its program, joined in 1916 and would become the group's president. United States Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR USA) was founded in 1915 by sixty-eight pacifists, including A.

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