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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
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 Legal...
Dates:
1835-1973; Majority of material found within 1911-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Anti-Enlistment League 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Bowie, Walter Russell, 1882-1969 1
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- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
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- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Durant, Ariel 1
- Early, Frances H. 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Finch, Margaret Rockwell, 1921- 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
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- Kuenzli, Alfred E. (Alfred Eugene), 1923- 1
- Layer, Frances Evans 1
- Lloyd, Georgia, 1913- 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- New York Bureau of Legal Advice 1
- Rockwell, Marjorie Hughan 1
- Socialist Party (U.S.) 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
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