Lloyd, William Bross, 1875-1946.

William Bross Lloyd, Jr. (1908-1995), writer, organizer, and political activist is the eldest child of William Bross Lloyd and Lola Maverick Lloyd. He graduated from Antioch College in 1932, worked as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (1929-1931), and became involved in the consumer cooperative movement in Chicago and Racine, Wisconsin. From 1935-1938 he edited The Racine Day, the newspaper of the Racine Trades and Labor Council of the Racine Progressive Party. He left the paper to join the staff of the Campaign for World Government, founded by Lola Maverick Lloyd and Rosika Schwimmer in 1937. He acted as Midwest Director, and later, American Director until he was assigned to a Civilian Public Service Camp in 1943 as a conscientious objector to military service in World War II. After his discharge he became a freelance writer and editor focusing on such issues as nuclear disarmament, the independence and economic development of Third World nations, and world peace. He founded the newsletter Toward Freedom in 1952 and is the author of Town Meeting for America and Waging Peace, the Swiss Experience . Lloyd headed the Satellite and Radio Communications committee for the Chicago branch of the United Nations Association and continued through the mid-1980s as an active participant in the World Federalists Association. In 1988 Lloyd relocated to Rochester, Vermont.

From the guide to the William Bross Lloyd, Jr. papers, 1912-1991, 1960-1983, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)