Women's International League of Peace and Freedom (Essex County, N.J. Branch) Collection, ca. 1925-1994.

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Women's International League of Peace and Freedom (Essex County, N.J. Branch) Collection, ca. 1925-1994.

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The collection consists of educational and informational pamphlets created or distributed by the WILPF, newspaper articles about events held by the Essex County branch of the WILPF and persons in the organization, documents detailing the day-to-day workings of the branch such as meeting minutes and newsletters, personal correspondence between members, bank ledgers and other financial documents, numerous group photographs of WILPF members, and WILPF promotional material dating from 1925 to 1994. Included also are pamphlets and documents related to the United Nations.

.7 linear feet.

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7803870

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace; the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919. The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman's Peace Party in the United States, in January 1915, this group later became the US section of WILPF. Along with Jane Addams, Marian Cripps and Margaret E. Dungan were also foundi...

Woman's Peace Party

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Women's International League of Peace and Freedom.

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The Women's International League of Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915 in response to World War I. The WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all. The Essex County Branch was founded in 1925 and reactivated in 1955 at a conference at Upsala College. The branch continues t...