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War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview
The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a...
Dates:
1923-1994
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-106
Overview
Women's Peace Society was not interested in using political or economic means to end what it termed "war-madness". Rather, its members chose educational methods such as handing out literature, participating in demonstrations, speaking at public events, and holding school contests. In August 1921, it sponsored a conference at Niagara Falls where it cooperated with Canadian peace women in starting the Women's Peace Union of the Western Hemisphere. The Women's Peace Union chose to work politically...
Dates:
1914-1933; Majority of material found within 1914-1933
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Barker, Christine Ross 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
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- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
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- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gray, Annie E. 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
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- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Holmes, Marian H. 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Mackaye, Jessie Hardy 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
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- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
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- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
- Winsor, Mary, 1869-1956 1
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1
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