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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
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-016
Abstract
Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College....
Dates:
1889-1958
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-125
Abstract
Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson (l905-l984) began to gain influence in the peace movement when her pamphlet A Call to Peace Now was printed by the Friends in l943. That summer, Hutchinson and a small group of people started the Peace Now Movement, using her pamphlet to rally support for the principle of a negotiated settlement rather than unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. This group included George W. Hartmann, a psychology professor at Columbia, and John Collett. Hutchinson also worked...
Dates:
1942-1980
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-International Conference of Women Workers...
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-International Council of Women
Scope and Contents
Collection is primarily printed correspondence, flyers, reports, and news clippings; correspondents include Elizabeth Cadbury.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1888-1947
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-288
Abstract
JAPA was formed in 1948; it's mission, carried out primarily through its yearly Children's Book Awards, is to deepen understanding of peace and justice for children and their adults.
Dates:
1919 - 2023; Majority of material found within 1985-2012
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-293
Abstract
Jean Gore was a peace and justice advocate for many years, particularly active through the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Branch in Boulder, Colorado.
Dates:
1969-2012
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation-West Bank and Gaza
Abstract
This small collection documents the efforts of the JWCEO to highlight the need for freedom in Palestine from Israeli occupation.
Dates:
1988-1993
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Johnston, Carla B.
Abstract
Papers of Carla Johnston, who was active in politics, and in working for peace, in Massachusetts, as well as a writer of eight books.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1979-1987
Collection — othertype: DG 291
Identifier: SCPC-DG-291
Abstract
This collection contains materials given to the donor by her aunt, June Miller Thompson. Materials include photos, media, audiotapes, and diaries related to the Great Peace March. Her writings related to peace, peaceful civil disobedience, nuclear war, and nuclear energy are also included. Her engagement in the Ribbon prior to and during August 1985, included her participation and presence (and that of her husband, Bill Willard Thompson) in Hiroshima while the Ribbon was unfolding in...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1985