Records, 1936-1937.

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Records, 1936-1937.

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Records of the Wisconsin Peace Council, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, and an affiliate of the Emergency Peace Campaign, documenting their "No Foreign War Crusade" in the mid-1930s. The Wisconsin Peace Council was chaired by the Reverend George L. Collins and was one of 37 local organizations that were to serve as focal points to coordinate local peace activities enlisting the help of churches, women's groups, luncheon clubs, veterans associations, labor unions, and school and university organizations.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.)

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Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in Feb. 1, ...

Wisconsin Peace Council.

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