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| Creator: | Woman's Peace Party | |
| Title: | Woman's Peace Party Collection | |
| Dates: | 1915-1916 | |
| Abstract: | Part of the Jane Addams Memorial Collection. Part of the Midwest Women's Historical Collection. The Woman's Peace Party was founded in 1915 in Washington DC, by a group of American woman pacifists. Jane Addams was elected the first Chairman. Other members included Mary McDowell, Florence Kelly, Alice Hamilton, Anna Howard Shaw, Emily Balch, Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Carrie Chapman Catt and Sophonisba Breckinridge. By 1917, membership had increased to 40,000 members. The Woman's Peace Party was headquartered in Chicago. In 1919, it became the U.S. section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The collection contains broadsides, speeches, reports, programs, yearbooks and pamphlets covering the years 1915-1916. | |
| Quantity: | 0.25 linear feet | |
| Identification: | WPP | |
Against the background of the bloody Great War then raging in Europe, Jane Addams and Carrie Chapman Carr summoned together a conference of 3000 women in Washington, D.C. to call for peace, the limitation of armaments, nationalization of weapons manufacture, opposition to militarism in culture and government, and economic sources of conflict. Jane Addams served as the first chairman of the new Woman's Peace Party.
Representatives of the WPP participated in the International Congress of Women in April 1915 held in The Hague. Addams chaired the Hague Congress and oversaw the creation of an International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (ICWPP). The WPP would become the U.S. Section of the ICWPP at the latter organization's first annual meeting in January 1916. The Second International Congress of Women was held in May 1919 in Zurich, Switzerland as the great powers met to determine the final terms of peace in Paris. The ICWPP would later be reorganized as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
The Woman's Peace Party Collection includes party broadsides, Organization Conference addresses and reports, the Yearbook for 1916, and a pamphlet.
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| This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms. | ||
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| Woman's Peace Party--Sources. | ||
| Women and peace--Sources. | ||
Barr, Eleanor,"Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Collection (DG043)," [Finding Aid] http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/Dg026-050/dg043wilpft/history.htm ,(198_)