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Women and peace -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:

Julia Grace Wales Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wales, Julia Grace
Dates: 1914-1940; Majority of material found within 1914-1917

James Warbasse and Agnes Dyer Warbasse Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Warbasse, James
Overview

James Warbasse was a Brooklyn physician and socialist who, with his wife, Agnes Dyer Warbasse, was interested in labor, social conditions, and cooperative movements.

Dates: 1914-1917

Ada Wardlaw Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wardlaw, Ada

Sarah Willmer Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Willmer, Sarah
Abstract

Journals, poetry, letters.

Dates: 1987-1989

Mary Winsor Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Winsor, Mary
Dates: 1906-1951; Majority of material found within 1922-1947

Alice Wiser Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-203
Overview

Alice Wiser was a Quaker and had trained as a social worker and psychological counselor. She dedicated the last ten to fifteen years of her life to both peace and women's rights. Wiser was instrumental in organizing the peace tent for the second United Nations Conference on Women held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985. After the conference Wiser continued to organize around these issues, traveling around the world to interview women and talk about peace. Wiser died from breast cancer in 1995.

Dates: 1976-1991

Woman's Pro-League Council Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Woman's Pro-League Council

Women Strike for Peace Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-115
Overview

Women Strike for Peace came into existence on November 1, 1961, as a protest against atmospheric nuclear tests by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. By the late 1980s the national WSP office in Philadelphia closed, but the WSP legislative office and various WSP branches around the U.S. remained active through the 1990s.

Dates: 1961-1996

Women's Committee for World Disarmament Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Women's Committee for World Disarmament

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-043
Abstract Includes minutes, resolutions and general historical records; anniversary celebrations, committee minutes, literature and releases; office files from the legislative office, the finance and the executive director; includes miscellaneous records from branches, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, among others; a large correspondence file includes general office correspondence as well as that of the National Organizational Secretary, the Washington Legislative Secretary, and...
Dates: 1915-