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Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civil Defense Protest Committee
Abstract

Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings; the bulk of the collection is from 1955.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1955-1962

Henry LeRoy Finch Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-195
Overview

Henry Leroy (Roy) Finch Jr. was a pacifist, conscientious objector to World War II, philosopher and writer.

Dates: 1933-1995

Jessie Wallace Hughan Papers

 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

War Resisters League Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a...
Dates: 1923-2013

Denny Wilcher Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wilcher, Denny
Overview

This collection documents the experiences of Wilcher (and his friends), while in Civilian Public Service, and after he left CPS and was imprisoned at McNeil Island Federal Prison Camp.

Dates: 1941-1946

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  • Subject: Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources X
  • Names: Finch, Henry Le Roy X

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Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
Civil disobedience 1
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Names
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
War Resisters League 3
Civilian Public Service 2
Corfman, Rex 2
DiGia, Ralph 2
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Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 2
Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
Kaufman, Abraham 2
Roodenko, Igal 2
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
Aberman, Sidney 1
Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
American Forum for Socialist Education 1
Anti-Enlistment League 1
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
Barr, Allen H. 1
Brooks, R. Boland 1
Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
Civil Defense Protest Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
Civilian Public Service Union 1
Civilian Public Service. Camp (Merom, Ind.) 1
Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 1
Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
Durant, Ariel 1
Early, Frances H. 1
Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
Finch, Margaret Rockwell, 1921- 1
French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
Furnas, Paul J. 1
Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
Greene, Felix 1
Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
Hedemann, Ed 1
Hedemann, Grace 1
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
Hughan, Evelyn 1
Isely, Philip 1
Kepler, Roy C. 1
Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
Lens, Sidney 1
Malina, Judith, 1926- 1
McReynolds, David 1
Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
Olmstead, Frank 1
Peck, James 1
Pell, Orlie, 1900- 1
Provisional Defense Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
Ransom, Frances Rose 1
Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
Rockwell, Marjorie Hughan 1
Rosenbaum, Crane 1
Schaum, Winifred W. 1
Schmidt, John Wesley, 1917-1997 1
Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 1
Socialist Party (U.S.) 1
Stafford, David Benbow, 1918- 1
Swift, David Everett, 1914- 1
Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928 1
Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
Wilcher, Denny, 1914-1993 1
Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1
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