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Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955

 Person

Found in 18 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

Anti-Enlistment League Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Anti-Enlistment League

Committee for Peaceful Alternatives Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Peaceful Alternatives

Consultative Peace Council Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Consultative Peace Council
Abstract

Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, administrative files, minutes of meetings, publicity materials, brochures, newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Devere Allen, Dorothy Detzer, Alfred Hassler, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abe Kaufman, Frederick J. Libby, A.J. Muste, Ray Newton, Mildred Scott Olmsted, John Swomley, E. Raymond Wilson, and M.R. Zigler.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1930-1969

Emergency Peace Campaign Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-012
Abstract Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in...
Dates: 1936-1937

Federation Against War Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Federation Against War

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

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

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

Mercedes M. Randall Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-110
Overview

Mercedes M. Randall was an early, and lifelong, member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She held many positions of responsibility in the organization, including chairmanship of the National Education Committee, and presidency of the Manhattan Branch. Randall was the first biographer of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Emily Greene Balch.

Dates: 1914-1977

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Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 4
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 4
Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Conscientious objection 2
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Pacifism 2
Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Women and peace 2
Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Civil disobedience 1
Cold War -- Sources 1
Congregational churches -- Clergy -- History -- Sources 1
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
Draft -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters 1
Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Feminists 1
Feminists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Flags -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Free trade -- History -- Sources 1
Germany 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Sources 1
International cooperation -- History -- Sources 1
International organization -- History -- Sources 1
Internationalism -- History -- Sources 1
Jewish refugees -- History -- Sources 1
Jews -- Europe -- History -- Sources 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
Labor -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
Military nursing -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- Societies, etc. 1
Pacifists 1
Pacifists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements 1
Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Suffragists 1
Suffragists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Women -- Political activity 1
Women -- Political activity -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Women and Peace -- History -- Sources 1
Women and peace -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 1
Women and the military -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women and war -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women political candidates -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women social reformers 1
Women social reformers -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Sources 1
World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
Young democracy (Periodical) 1
Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1
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