War Resisters League
Organization
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Eichel Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-131
Overview
The Eichel Family papers provide a unique glimpse into the lives of conscientious objectors and peace activists from one family over two generations, from 1916 onward. Julius Eichel, David Eichel and Albert Eichel were all C.O.s during WWI. Julius Eichel and his wife Esther Eichel protested WWII. Their son Seymour Eichel also served time in prison for his refusal to serve in the military in the 1950s.
Dates:
1918 - 2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry LeRoy Finch Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-195
Overview
Henry Leroy (Roy) Finch Jr. was a pacifist, conscientious objector to World War II, philosopher and writer.
Dates:
1933-1995
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Jessie Wallace Hughan Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-251
Abstract
Jessie Wallace Hughan (December 25, 1875 – April 10, 1955) was an American educator, social activist, and a radical pacifist. During her college days she was one of four co-founders of Alpha Omicron Pi, a national sorority for university women. She also was a founder and the first Secretary of the War Resisters League, established in 1923. For over two decades, she was a perennial candidate for political office on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America in her home state of New York.
Dates:
1870-1998
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Abraham Kaufman Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Kaufman, Abraham
Overview
In October 1928, Kaufman became the first paid employee of the War Resisters League, eventually becoming its Executive Secretary through 1947. He co-founded the Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942-1997
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Roy C. Kepler Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-185
Overview
Roy Kepler was a radical pacifist and conscientious objector during World War II, owner of Kepler Books in Menlo Park, California, involved for many years with the War Resisters League, one of the founders of the Pacifica Foundation and public radio in California.
Dates:
1940-1985
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
David McReynolds Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-134
Abstract
David McReynolds (1929-2018), was an activist with the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was an editor of Liberation magazine in the 1950s and a leader of the WRL from the 1950s until his retirement in 1999. McReynolds ran for Congress twice and for President of the U.S. twice, including a run in 2000. McReynolds has attempted to integrate anti-war and pacifist philosophy with Socialist economics. David McReynolds was openly gay and...
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Tracy D. Mygatt and Frances Witherspoon Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-089
Overview
Tracy Dickinson Mygatt (1885-1973) and Frances May Witherspoon (1886-1973) were prolific writers and absolute pacifists who worked together in movements for women's rights, world peace, civil liberties, and civil rights. Both women authored plays, articles, poems, sermons, and stories, individually and in collaboration. They were founders of the War Resisters League and later served as honorary chairs. Frances Witherspoon was a co-founder and Executive Secretary of the New York Bureau of...
Dates:
1835-1973; Majority of material found within 1911-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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