War Resisters League
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Eichel Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-131
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1918 - 2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
David McReynolds Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-134
Abstract
David McReynolds (1929-2018), was an activist with the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was an editor of Liberation magazine in the 1950s and a leader of the WRL from the 1950s until his retirement in 1999. McReynolds ran for Congress twice and for President of the U.S. twice, including a run in 2000. McReynolds has attempted to integrate anti-war and pacifist philosophy with Socialist economics. David McReynolds was openly gay and...
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters' International Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-039
Abstract
The War Resisters' International was founded at Bilthoven, Netherlands, in 1921 by representative pacifists from that country, Germany, Austria and Great Britain. The War Resisters' International was never more than a coordinating body in its relationship to affiliated groups.
Dates:
1923-1976
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Abstract
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:
1923-2013
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Subject: Conscientious objection X
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Women and peace 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 -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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