Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Chapel Hill Branch (N.C.). Records, 1958-2002.

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Chapel Hill Branch (N.C.). Records, 1958-2002.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80604984

Collection (1290 items, dated 1958-2002) contains meeting agendas and minutes, directories, conference reports, group organizing information, correspondence including some with Senators Jesse Helms and John Edwards, PEACE AND FREEDOM, the magazine of the WILPF, legislative bulletins, clippings, an oral history interview with founding member Charlotte Adams, song words, newsletters, videos, photographs, and other material documenting their efforts. A few of the newsletters document the activities of the Triangle Branch of WILPF. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. (99-315, 00-074, 00-288) The addition to the collection (900 items, 1.4 linear feet; dated 1961-2001) contains information files on activism for nuclear arms control, nuclear disarmament, and bans on nuclear testing that continue to document WILPF's activities to promote world peace. Also includes correspondence among WILPF members; meeting agendas and minutes for both WILFP and the Orange County North Carolina Peace Coalition; national petitions against nuclear weapons; and issues of PEACE AND FREEDOM and the branch's newsletter. (01-150)

2190 items.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8248109

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Chapel Hill Branch (N.C.)

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Chapel Hill, N.C. branch of an international peace advocacy organization founded in 1915. From the description of Records, 1958-2002. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 80604984 ...

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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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...

Helms, Jesse

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Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

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