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Jessie Wallace Hughan Papers, 1870-1998 (inclusive)

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6.5 linear ft. (6.5 linear feet.)
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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.

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Robert Levering Papers, 1967-1972 (inclusive)

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.83 linear ft. (.83 linear feet)
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Robert E. Levering is a pacifist and Quaker. He has been the co-author of Fortune magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," and a speaker on workplace trends and management strategies aimed at improving workplace productivity. Levering is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Martin Luther King Jr. School of Social Change.

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National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Records, 1982-2022 (bulk)

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11 linear ft. (22 boxes + 3 unprocessed boxes (acc. 2023-025))
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The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee was formed in September 1982 at a National Action Conference of the War Resisters League and the Center on Law and Pacifism. Its supporters promote war tax resistance on the national level. The NWTRC is not to be confused with the organization War Tax Resistance, begun in New York, New York in 1969.

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Hague Appeal for Peace Records, 1997-2007 (bulk)

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18.5 linear ft. (18.5 linear ft.)
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The Hague Appeal for Peace is an organization with a global campaign to create a "culture of peace" through the following means: by strengthening humanitarian and human rights laws and institutions, by advancing the prevention, peaceful resolution, and transformation of conflicts, by abolishing nuclear weapons and develop disarmament campaigns, and identifying the root causes of war. More than 800 organizations--human rights, environmental, gender, disarmament-- have endorsed the HAP campaign.

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Codepink Collected Records, 2003-2011 (bulk)

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1.88 linear ft. (4 hollinger boxes and 1 photo box of processed materials. an additional 5.5 linear feet are accessioned but unprocessed [2024-02-08].)
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Includes letters, flyers, reports, printed emails, and materials from local branches.

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Robert J. Gwyn Collected Papers, 1960- (bulk)

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2.5 linear ft. (2.5 linear feet.)
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Collection includes extensive information about the San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace (1960-1961), including material from a dismounted scrapbook; also includes three folders about the Committee of Correspondence (New York).

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American League for Peace and Democracy Collected Records, 1933-1939 (inclusive)

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0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
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The American League against War and Fascism changed its name in 1937 to American League for Peace and Democracy (ALPD). It was a coalition of liberal and left-wing organizations united to oppose war and the fascist governments in Europe. It disbanded in 1940.

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Devere Allen Papers, 1809-1978 (inclusive) 1910-1955 (bulk)

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138 linear ft. (138 linear ft.)
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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.

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Women Strike for Peace Records, 1961-1996 (inclusive)

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45 linear ft. (45 linear ft.)
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Women Strike for Peace came into existence on November 1, 1961, as a protest against atmospheric nuclear tests by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. By the late 1980s the national WSP office in Philadelphia closed, but the WSP legislative office and various WSP branches around the U.S. remained active through the 1990s.

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Camille Drevet Collected Papers, 1930-1933 (bulk)

Extent:
12 items (12 items.)
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Mimeographed writings, statements on the Soviet Union and the international situation; Swiss Security Service report on Drevet (1933); pamphlets by Drevet.

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Philadelphia War Tax Resistance Records, 1967-1992 (inclusive)

Extent:
8.5 linear ft. (8.5 linear ft.)
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The Philadelphia War Tax Resistance was an organization that advocated nonviolence in order to end war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation, as well as promoted nonpayment of taxes that funded war and defense. This collection includes correspondence, administrative files, court records, financial records, minutes of meetings, periodicals, and reference files.

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