War Resisters League
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Devere Allen Papers
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.
Katherine Anne Assante Collected Papers
Includes a copy of Assante's thesis and e-mail interviews with David McReynolds in support of her research. McReynolds was associated with the War Resisters League for many years.
Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Records
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.
Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers
Eichel Family Papers
The Eichel Family papers provide a unique glimpse into the lives of conscientious objectors and peace activists from one family over two generations, from 1916 onward. Julius Eichel, David Eichel and Albert Eichel were all C.O.s during WWI. Julius Eichel and his wife Esther Eichel protested WWII. Their son Seymour Eichel also served time in prison for his refusal to serve in the military in the 1950s.
Emergency Anti-War Committee (New York) Collected Records
Henry LeRoy Finch Papers
Henry Leroy (Roy) Finch Jr. was a pacifist, conscientious objector to World War II, philosopher and writer.
Edward P. Gottlieb Papers
Edward Gottlieb was an educator, civil rights activist, peace activist, and poet. He was the chairman of the War Resisters in the 1960s.
Jessie Wallace Hughan Papers
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.
Abraham Kaufman Collected Papers
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.
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 21
- Archival Object 3
- Subject
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 12
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 4
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 3
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 3
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism 2
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Demonstrations -- United States -- Photographs 1
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft registration -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Economic conversion -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Educators -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Educators -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Environmental protection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Harrisburg Seven Trial, Harrisburg, Pa., 1972 1
- International organization -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Liberation (New York, N.Y. : 1956) 1
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Nonviolence -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements 1
- Peace movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Main Line -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Philosophers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Physicists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Printers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Public radio -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 1
- WIN (Periodical) 1
- WIN (Periodical) -- Archives 1
- War -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- War resistance movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- War resistance movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace 1
- Women political candidates -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
