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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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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.

Both published and unpublished manuscripts for magazine articles (1972- 1983) comprise the bulk of the WIN records, most of which are marked with the editor's changes.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.

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

Guide to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 2nd ed., p. 75.

Gift of, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1991

This checklist was prepared by Martha P. Shane in January, 1991. This finding aid was prepared by Chloe Lucchesi- Malone in August, 2009.

  1. Digitized WIN Magazine
  2. WIN Magazine Photographs (with subject index) removed to Photograph Collection
  3. Two cassettes from abortion roundtable (See WIN - August 1, 1980) removed to Audiovisual Collection
  4. 5" sound reel - Pete Seeger doing WIN promotional "spots" (1975) removed to Audiovisual Collection

Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

Editorial Board, 1968-1973; 1975-1983.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-2324]
Staff, 1974-1978; 1980-1982.
Box 1 [offsite SCPC-2324]

Work process (By-laws).
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
History of WIN.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
Fundraising, 1969-1975.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
Finance/circulation, 1975, 1976, 1981.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
Resist grants, 1976-1982.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
War Resister League subsidy requests, 1980-1982.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
Foundation attempts and War Tax Resistance loans, 1982-1983.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
WIN form letters.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
Press clippings, 1972-1977.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
Contacts, 1980.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
WIN style and grammar, layout sheets, and writer's guide.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
Promotional materials, 1972-1983.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
House ads, 1982.
Box 2 [offsite SCPC-2325]
WIN books, 1973-1975.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-2326]
Spring books poll, 1976-1983.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-2326]
Leads that need follow up, 1982.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-2326]
Special issues and article ideas, 1983.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-2326]
Small press - Committe of Small Magazine Edotrs and Publishers [COSMEP], 1972-1976.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-2326]
Project Work, Incorporated, 1980.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-2326]
Ads for final issue, 1983.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-2326]
Commentary about WIN's closing.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-2326]

Correspondence, 1974-1976.
Box 3 [offsite SCPC-2326]
Correspondence, 1977-1982.
Box 3a [offsite SCPC-2327]
Correspondence, 1983-1984.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-2328]
Compliments, 1974-1981.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-2328]
Dworkin, Fritz, etc. controversy, 1975.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-2328]
Biweekly proposal responses, 1979.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-2328]
Correspondence of Michael D. Fleshman - WIN staff, 1981-1982.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-2328]
Closing correspondence, 1983-1984.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-2328]
Commentary about closing of WIN.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-2328]

Published manuscripts.
Box 4 [offsite SCPC-2328]
Published manuscripts, May 1972-March 14, 1974.
Box 5 [offsite SCPC-2329]
Published manuscripts, March 21, 1974-September 1974.
Box 6 [offsite SCPC-2330]
Published manuscripts, October 1974-April 10, 1975.
Box 7 [offsite SCPC-2331]
Published manuscripts, April 17, 1975-August 1975.
Box 8 [offsite SCPC-2332]
Published manuscripts, September 1975-August 1976.
Box 9 [offsite SCPC-2333]
Manuscripts with approximate dates.
Box 9 [offsite SCPC-2333]
Published manuscripts, approximately 1971-1975.
Box 10 [offsite SCPC-2334]
Published manuscripts, approximately 1976-1977.
Box 11 [offsite SCPC-2335]
Published manuscripts, approximately 1978-1979.
Box 12 [offsite SCPC-2336]
Published manuscripts, approximately 1980-1983.
Box 13 [offsite SCPC-2337]
Published manuscripts, undated.
Box 13 [offsite SCPC-2337]
Published manuscripts, undated.
Box 14 [offsite SCPC-2338]
Manuscripts filed in alphabetical order, by author's last name, approximately 1976-1977.
Box 15 [offsite SCPC-2339]
Poems printed in WIN, 1975, 1976.
Box 15 [offsite SCPC-2339]
Accepted poetry, 1975, 1976.
Box 15 [offsite SCPC-2339]
Rejected poetry, 1975, 1976.
Box 15 [offsite SCPC-2339]
Future issue manuscripts - need editing, 1981, 1982.
Box 16 [offsite SCPC-2340]
For serious consideration, 1981, 1982.
Box 16 [offsite SCPC-2340]
In the works/queries, 1982, 1983.
Box 16 [offsite SCPC-2340]
Rejection letters with manuscripts, 1981, 1982.
Box 16 [offsite SCPC-2340]
Manuscripts for final issue.
Box 16 [offsite SCPC-2340]

Anello diary, approximately 1973.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Jane Alpert, 1975, 1976.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Prison Suit, 1975.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Revolutionary Union, 1975.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Michael E. Kerr - Korean War Discharge, 1975-1976.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Lesbian mother custody case, approximately 1975-1979.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Korean fetus controversy, 1977-1978.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Karen Silkwood, 1979.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Black political party, approximately 1980.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Gay/lesbian issues, 1980-1981.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Draft, 1980.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Abortion roundtable, April 1980.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Women's issues, approximately 1981.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Central America file, approximately 1982, 1983.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Bernice Reagon interview, 1982.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
Copies of FBI papers stolen from Media PA office and reprinted in WIN, with related material, 1971-1978.
Box 17 [offsite SCPC-2341]
FBI papers.
Box 18 [offsite SCPC-2342]

Index card file (indexed by author, subject, location, etc.), 1971.
Box 18 [offsite SCPC-2342]
Two cassettes from abortion roundtable (See WIN - August 1, 1980).
Scope and Contents

[removed to Audiovisual Collection]

5" sound reel - Pete Seeger doing WIN promotional "spots", 1975.
Scope and Contents

[removed to Audiovisual Collection]

Material from Re-File Box, 1992.
Box Re-File
Material from Re-File Box, 1993.
Box Re-File
Material from Re-File Box, 1996.
Box Re-File
Material from Re-File Box, 2010.
Box Re-File

Meeting minutes, March 31, 1969-March 21, 1973.
Box Acc. 2017-100: 1
Staff memos, 1969, 1970, undated.
Box Acc. 2017-100: 1
Organizational mailings.
Box Acc. 2017-100: 1
Seth Foldy correspondence, 1969-1974, undated.
Box Acc. 2017-100: 1
Seth Foldy financial records, 1970-1973.
Box Acc. 2017-100: 1

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