WIN Magazine Records
Scope and Contents
Both published and unpublished manuscripts for magazine articles (1972- 1983) comprise the bulk of the WIN records, most of which are marked with the editor's changes. In addition to articles and poems, there are letters from its readers many of which were published in issues of WIN as well as other correspondence, 1975-1984), book reviews, and suggested bibliographies for reading. There are minutes of the Editorial Board (1968-1983) and the Staff (1974-1982), some administrative records, and a short subject file. There is an index card file with author, subject, and location references to the 1971 magazines and several sound recordings. The Swarthmore College Peace Collection also has a collection of WIN photographs (1957-1971).
Regular contributors to WIN Magazine include Maris Cakars, Ann Morrissett Davidon, Ralph deGia, Larry Gara, Neil Haworth, Ed and Grace Hedemann, Marty Jezer, David McReynolds, James Peck, Igal Roodenko, and Wendy Schwartz.
Dates
- Creation: 1968-1984
Creator
- New York Workshop in Nonviolence (Organization)
- Committee for Nonviolent Action (Organization)
- War Resisters League (Organization)
- Cakars, Maris (Correspondent, Person)
- Davidon, Ann Morrissett (Correspondent, Person)
- DiGia, Ralph (Correspondent, Person)
- Gara, Larry (Correspondent, Person)
- Haworth, Neil D. (Correspondent, Person)
- Hedemann, Ed (Correspondent, Person)
- Hedemann, Grace (Correspondent, Person)
- Jezer, Marty (Correspondent, Person)
- McReynolds, David (Correspondent, Person)
- Peck, James (Correspondent, Person)
- Roodenko, Igal (Correspondent, Person)
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) (Correspondent, Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Physical Access Note
All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.
Conditions Governing Use
None.
Historical Note
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. The Committee for Nonviolent Action, founded in 1957 to sponsor imaginative nonviolent direct action projects for peace, took over the financial responsibility for WIN in September 1966. At that time the full title became WIN Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action. In the fall of 1967, when the Committee for Nonviolent Action merged into the WRL, the latter group took on the responsibility for publishing WIN. However, WRL had no direct control over the editorial board and staff of the magazine. WIN moved moved from New York City to Rifton, N.Y. and back to Brooklyn during its existence. Because of failing financial circumstances, WIN printed its last issue in October 1983, 17 years after it had begun. WIN solicited articles and poetry promoting many liberal and radical causes including disarmament, draft resistance, war tax refusal, and other pacifist concerns as well as civil rights, women's liberation, and environmental protection. It supported nonviolence as the only way to resolve differences between individuals or groups. Several well-known photojournalists published their work in WIN Magazine.
Extent
7.75 linear ft. (Records: 7.75 linear ft.)
7.5 linear ft. (Photographs: 7.5 linear ft.)
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 as well as civil rights, women's liberation, and environmental protection. It supported nonviolence as the only way to resolve differences between individuals or groups. The last issue of the magzine was published in October 1983.
Arrangement
Many manuscripts were inscribed by the editor with the date of the WIN issue in which they were to be published. These are in chronological order at the beginning of Series IV. The rest of the manuscripts are in approximate chronological order. Correspondence is together by year. Lists of abbreviated editorial corrections were discarded. Original folder titles used by the WIN editor were kept in Series II, III, IV, and V.
Re-File Box, material received 1992-2010
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1991
Separated Materials
- Digitized WIN Magazine
- WIN Magazine Photographs (with subject index) removed to Photograph Collection
- Two cassettes from abortion roundtable (See WIN - August 1, 1980) removed to Audiovisual Collection
- 5" sound reel - Pete Seeger doing WIN promotional "spots" (1975) removed to Audiovisual Collection
Bibliographic References
Legal Status
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Processing Information
This checklist was prepared by Martha P. Shane in January, 1991. This finding aid was prepared by Chloe Lucchesi- Malone in August, 2009.
Subject
- New York Workshop in Nonviolence (Organization)
- Committee for Nonviolent Action (Organization)
- War Resisters League (Organization)
Topical
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources
- Draft registration -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Environmental protection -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources
Uniform Title
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2018: The file list was standardized in Summer 2017 by Mary Olesnavich in preparation for importing into ArchivesSpace. Elisabeth Miller added the notes in Fall 2017.
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