Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice

Mary (Du Bois) Bye, Quaker peace and social activist and member of Doylestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in Pennsylvania, was born in 1913. This collection consists of the papers relating to Mary Bye's political activity. It includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and other files concerning peace and justice issues.

The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice was initated in 1974 to "call for disarmament, a simultaneous shift of economic priorities away from militarism and toward meeting domestic and global human needs, and removal of the causes of war." When the Walk ended on October 18, 1976 at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., walkers had covered 8,000 miles through 34 states.

Slideshow depicting the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice. Images include walkers along roads, at protest events, and resting on grass and in tents.

Collection of slides from the War Resisters League Records that have been grouped together in a binder under the heading, "WRL Misc." Many of the slides are reproductions of published material and cover aspects of nuclear energy and weapons development. Any handwritten notes from the slide have been transcribed in the description. Each slide was digitized and described by Swarthmore undergraduate Tiffany Wong-Jones in July 2023.