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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office

 Organization

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Jane Addams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-001
Overview

A world-famous social reformer; co-founded the first settlement house in America in 1889; championed many causes on behalf of the urban poor, such as protection of immigrants, child labor laws, industrial safety, juvenile courts, and recognition of labor unions; a leading figure in the movement for international peace; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

Dates: 1838-; Majority of material found within 1880-1935

Mary Ellicott Arnold (1876-1968) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-003
Overview Mary Ellicott Arnold (1876-1968) was a Quaker writer and social activist, known for her work with consumer cooperatives. After an unsuccessful farming venture in her youth, Mary Ellicott Arnold and her lifelong companion, Mabel Reed, worked with the Karok Indians in California as employees of the United States Indian Bureau. After a period as chief organizer for the U.S. Employment Service in New York State, she and Mabel Reed were involved in a number of successful cooperative ventures. She...
Dates: 1888-1970

Biddle family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-177
Overview This collection contains the papers of Philadelphia Quaker Owen Biddle (1737-1799), his son, Clement Biddle (1778-1856), and numerous descendants. Owen Biddle, a scientist and merchant, was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and helped in the establishment of Westtown School (1799). Owen Biddle's papers, 1772-1793, (Series 1) include correspondence, and journals, some of which relate to his Revolutionary War activities. Three of his letterbooks, 1778-1779, have been microfilmed. The...
Dates: 1793-1951

Heloise Brainerd Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Brainerd, Heloise
Overview

Heloise Brainerd was connected with the Pan American Union in Washington, D.C. from 1909 to 1935. In 1935 Brainerd became the chair of the Committee on the Americas, and chair of the Division of Inter-American Work, for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Brainerd's goal was to draw women from Latin America into the peace movement, and to do this she traveled widely in the Americas. Brainerd was made Honorary Vice President of the U.S. Section of the WILPF in 1954.

Dates: 1900-1971

Kay Camp Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-169
Abstract Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in...
Dates: 1955-2006

Civilian Training Unit for Women Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civilian Training Unit for Women

Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-144
Abstract Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted...
Dates: 1949-

Hannah Clothier Hull Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-016
Abstract Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College....
Dates: 1889-1958

Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Overview Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937), and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936), were both leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers of the U.S. and international peace movement. Edwin Mead directed the work of the World Peace Foundation and participated in many international peace congresses. He was an American delegate to the International Peace Bureau. Mead helped found the School Peace League and was a prominent member of the American Peace League. Lucia Ames Mead was a leading member of many feminist...
Dates: 1876-1938

Peoples Mandate Committee Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-109
Overview Peoples Mandate to Governments to End War was an international campaign begun on September 6, 1935, by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to express such overwhelming opposition to war that governments would not dare resort to it as a means of solving disputes between nations. By the end of the decade the Peoples Mandate became an independent organization, headed by Mabel Vernon, and focused on peace and connections between women and women's organizations in the...
Dates: 1935-1975; Majority of material found within 1935-1956

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Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 5
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Internationalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
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Quaker women 2
Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
Antinuclear movement 1
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
Disarmament -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Educators -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Feminists -- United States 1
Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Fishers 1
Harrisburg Seven Trial, Harrisburg, Pa., 1972 1
Housing, Cooperative 1
Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
Internationalists 1
Japan -- History 1
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 1
Karok Indians 1
Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Latin America -- Social conditions -- Sources 1
Miners 1
Nova Scotia -- Economic conditions 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists 1
Pacifists -- United States 1
Peace movements 1
Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Main Line -- History -- Sources 1
Pennsylvania 1
Physicists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Political refugees -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker businesspeople 1
Quaker social reformers 1
Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- 18th century -- Diaries 1
Quakers -- Austria 1
Quakers -- Delaware 1
Quakers -- Education -- Japan 1
Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
Quakers -- Social service 1
Quakers -- Suffrage 1
Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Austria 1
Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 1
Social reformers -- United States 1
Social settlements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- Charities 1
Society of Friends -- Japan 1
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
United States 1
United States -- History -- Colonial period -- ca. 1600-1775 1
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 1
United States -- Race relations -- History -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women -- Political activity 1
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women -- Suffrage -- History -- Sources 1
Women and Peace -- History 1
Women and peace 1
Women pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women social reformers -- United States 1
Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Working class -- Dwellings 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 1
account books 1
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