War Resisters League
Organization
Found in 3 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
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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- Pacifism 2
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- 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
- 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
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Women and peace 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
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