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Winsor, Mary, 1869-1956

 Person

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Abstract The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates: 1930-1938

Mary Winsor Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Winsor, Mary
Dates: 1906-1951; Majority of material found within 1922-1947

Women's Peace Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-106
Abstract Women's Peace Society was not interested in using political or economic means to end what it termed "war-madness". Rather, its members chose educational methods such as handing out literature, participating in demonstrations, speaking at public events, and holding school contests. In August 1921, it sponsored a conference at Niagara Falls where it cooperated with Canadian peace women in starting the Women's Peace Union of the Western Hemisphere. The Women's Peace Union chose to work...
Dates: 1914-1933; Majority of material found within 1914-1933

Women's Peace Union: U.S. Branch Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-044
Abstract

The Women's Peace Union was founded in August 1921 to encourage the formation of a peace group to encompass all the women of the western hemisphere, to work for complete disarmament and the abolition of all constitutional and legal sanctions for war. Records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection are those of the United States branch.

Dates: 1921-1940

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Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Free trade -- History -- Sources 1