War Resisters League
Organization
Found in 2 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
Jessie Wallace Hughan Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-251
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1870-1998
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- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women political candidates -- United States -- History -- Sources 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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