War Resisters League
Organization
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
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
War Resisters League's First 50 Years Slideshow, 1973 August 05
File
Identifier: DG040_WRL_First50Years_SlideShow0081
Scope and Contents
This slide show was presented at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the War Resisters League. It contains the collected historical information and images presented by Larry Gara on August 5, 1973 at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, CA. The full script with a narrative desciption for each slide is available.
Dates:
1973 August 05
WIN Magazine Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-077
Abstract
WIN Magazine was started in January 1966 by the New York Workshop in Nonviolence, a New York City pacifist direct action group which functioned as an affiliate of both the Committee for Nonviolent Action and the War Resisters League. In September 1966 full title of the magazine became WIN Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action. WIN solicited articles and poetry promoting many liberal and radical causes including disarmament, draft resistance, war tax refusal, and other pacifist concerns...
Dates:
1968-1984
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
WRL Miscellaneous Slides (1976 collection), undated
File
Identifier: DG040_Slides_WRLMisc1976
Scope and Contents
Collection of slides from the War Resisters League Records that have been grouped together in a binder under the heading, "WRL Misc. 1976." Several focus on activist and writer, Grace Paley. It is unclear if all the slides were produced in 1976. The images depict events from a variety of time periods. There are also many duplicate images. Each slide was digitized and described by Swarthmore undergraduate Tiffany Wong-Jones in July 2023.
Dates:
undated
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- 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
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