OVERVIEW
Minnesota Historical Society
Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom. Minnesota Branch.
Minnesota branch records.
1921-2000.
International, United States branch,
Minnesota state chapter, and Minnesota local branch records of an international
women's organization which works for world peace, disarmament and social and
civil rights.
39.2 cu. ft. (39 boxes and 2 oversize
folders).
See [Detailed Description](a9) for shelf
locations.
HISTORY OF THE MINNESOTA BRANCH OF THE WOMEN'S
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
The roots of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF) go back to April 1915 when more than 1,100 women from twelve countries
met in The Hague, Holland. Their goal was to bring about a peaceful solution to
World War I. This first international congress of women, which organized the
Women's International Committee for Permanent Peace to continue its work,
passed twenty resolutions and sent two delegations to fourteen countries and
the Pope in the weeks immediately after the conference. While these delegations
got many countries to agree to mediation, they were unsuccessful in getting any
nation to start the process. Still President Woodrow Wilson was impressed
enough with these resolutions that he incorporated many of them into his
Fourteen Points. The second international conference of the Women's Committee
for Permanent Peace convened in Zurich in 1919, adopted the WILPF name,
established an international office in Geneva across the street from the League
of Nations, and became the first international body to point out dangers to
peace in the Versailles Treaty, which ended World War I. WILPF was not formed
by uniting previously existing national units, but was established at the
beginning as an international body. The international organization is funded by
individual yearly memberships, contributions from national sections, and by
gifts and bequests. The first international president was Jane Addams of the
United States (eventual winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize) and the first
international secretary was Emily Greene Balch, also of the United States (an
eventual winner of the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize).
In the United States, the Women's Peace Party organized in Washington,
D.C. soon after the outbreak of World War I and they held their first
convention in January 1915. In January 1916 they became the United States
Section of the Women's International Committee for Permanent Peace (which
became WILPF in 1919) and established headquarters in Philadelphia and a
legislative office in Washington, D.C.
The Minnesota state branch of WILPF, which brought in three speakers
from England, Germany, and France for seminars during the summer of 1922, was
formally established as a state branch on October 4, 1922, at the Women's Club
of St. Paul. This group was an outgrowth of the Minnesota Women's Disarmament
Committee, established in early 1921, which hoped to further the work of the
Washington disarmament conferences. They elected Maud Stockwell as their first
chairman. Minnesota membership quickly reached 200, at one dollar per year, and
within two years reached a membership of around 500, with most of the members
from the Twin Cities area and only about 20 members from greater Minnesota.
Chapters were organized and survived for a time in Duluth (1924-1926), Red Wing
(1930-1931), Albert Lea (1932-1933), Virginia (late 1930s), Winona (1930s),
Northfield, Brainerd, Montevideo, Rochester, and St. Cloud. Chapters in
Minneapolis and St. Paul survived into the 1970s, when they were merged into
the Twin Cities Metro branch. Stockwell continued as state chairman into 1934,
when Ruth Gage-Colby took over for two years. The next 16 years the Minnesota
section was led by Jean Wilcox of St. Paul and Anne Graves of St. Cloud. Other
state leaders were Marjorie Sibley and Viena Hendrickson (1950s), Medora
Peterson and Margaret Thomson (1960s), and Eleanor Otterness (1970s). Minnesota
hosted national WILPF conventions in Minneapolis (1938 and 1975), and in St.
Paul (1961).
While an accounting of WILPF activities and accomplishments on an
international, national, and state level is beyond the scope of this history, a
few highlights will be noted. Although WILPF acknowledged the weakness of the
League of Nations, they worked closely with it during the 1920s and 1930s,
supported treaties limiting naval armaments, and supported the 1927
Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war. A 1924 WILPF pamphlet warned of rising
anti-semitism in Europe and growing totalitarianism in Germany. WILPF
international delegations went to Indochina, China, and Nicaragua. Their report
on Haiti, after a visit there, led to a withdrawal of U.S. Marines. In 1932
WILPF circulated a worldwide petition addressed to the League of Nations
Disarmament Conference and sponsored a cross-country peace caravan (it went
through Minnesota) to gather signatures. Senate hearings on profits in the arms
industry resulted from WILPF urgings and WILPF strongly supported the Emergency
Peace Campaign of 1937-1939, which hoped to head off World War II, and urged
the United States not to supply war materials to Japan and other countries.
While WILPF lost many members during the 1940s, those that remained continued
to fight for civil and human rights, proposed help for the European Jews and
other victims of the war, and opposed the massive internment of
Japanese-Americans. WILPF was present at the San Francisco conference which
founded the United Nations in 1945 and was granted consultative status three
years later with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. In the 1950s
WILPF opposed the Korean War and government curtailing of civil liberties
during the red scare. WILPF refused to amend its constitution to ban communists
from membership. In 1957 WILPF presented 10,000 signatures to the White House
protesting nuclear bomb testing. WILPF supported the March on Washington for
Jobs and Freedom in 1963 and worked vigorously for the passage of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. From the mid-1960s on, WILPF was actively involved all over
the country in demonstrations, meetings, vigils, and rallies to stop the war in
Vietnam. In the 1970s and 1980s, WILPF worked on disarmament issues, the
nuclear freeze, against the military conscription of both men and women, and
locally protested the defense contracts of Honeywell and the U.S. Navy's
Project ELF. The history of WILPF has been one of working for the peaceful
resolutions of conflicts, eliminating the direct causes and means of war, and
working for economic and social justice and human rights on international,
national, and local levels.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
The collection is arranged into five series based on the
international, national, state, and local activities of this organization.
Materials produced by, or related to, the international organization
headquartered in Switzerland include a constitution, some circular letters
(mostly from the 1940s), material related to International Congresses held
between 1924 and 1998, pamphlets on the history of WILPF, and scattered copies
of the international newsletter, primarily dating between 1929 and 1973.
Materials produced by or related to the United States branch of WILPF
include constitutions, annual meeting files (bulk 1933-1970), board of
directors minutes (bulk 1935-1955), various branch and program letters, copies
of the national newsletters Four Lights and
Peace and Freedom (1941-1982), brochures,
miscellaneous materials, and subject files, which contain handbooks,
directories, manuals, committee files, policy statements, news releases, and
anniversary materials.
The bulk of the collection are the files of the Minnesota State Branch
of WILPF. Included are constitutions, board of directors minutes (1922-2000
with some gaps), annual meeting files (1925-1999), historical sketches, and
miscellaneous items. The bulk of the collection (boxes 10-31) are
alphabetically arranged subject files on peace, freedom, human, and civil
rights issues dating from the 1930s to the 1990s. Included are files on atomic
energy control, disarmament, conscription, cooperatives, fair employment
practices, human and civil rights organizations, labor issues, and world
government groups. Files from the organizations such as the National Council
for Prevention of War, Minnesota Council of American-Soviet Friendship, the War
Resisters League, the League for Industrial Democracy, the People's Commission
of Inquiry into the Solution of the War in Vietnam, and the Midwest Institute
of International Relations are included in these subject files. Publications
from the Japanese American Citizens League, various Jewish organizations, and
groups dealing with Latin American and African countries abound in these files.
Documents relating to the Spanish Civil War, the Korean War, and the war in
Vietnam also are interspersed in the files. Correspondence of the Minnesota
state branch, particularly heavy for the years 1936-1966, contains letters to
and from Jean Wilcox, Ruth Cage-Colby, Margaret Thomson, Berna Wells, and
others. Scattered financial records, membership lists, newspaper clippings and
scrapbooks, video tapes, and photographs also document activities of the
Minnesota branch of WILPF.
The fourth series contains records of various local branches around
the state of Minnesota. Material from the Minneapolis and St. Paul branches is
the most prevalent, but chapters in Brainerd, Duluth, Montevideo, Northfield,
Rochester, St. Cloud, Virginia, and Winona also are documented to some degree.
The fifth and final series are a number of folders containing items from
fourteen other state branches, including California, Illinois, Massachusetts,
and Wisconsin. Material dates from the 1930s to the 1970s, but is not
voluminous.
ARRANGEMENT
These documents are organized into the following sections:
- International Records
- United States Branch Records
- Minnesota State Branch Records
- Minnesota Local Branch Records
- Other State Branch Records
RELATED MATERIALS
Several reports of the Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom are separately cataloged in the Minnesota Historical Society book
collection.
Published reports of some of the International Congresses and
Minnesota state branch newsletters are cataloged separately in the Minnesota
Historical Society serial collection.
The papers of Minnesota branch president Jean Wilcox are separately
cataloged in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections.
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Topics:
Disarmament.
Draft.
Human rights.
Peace movements -- Minnesota -- History.
Peace -- Societies, etc.
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975.
Women and peace -- Minnesota.
Women political activists -- Minnesota -- History.
Organizations:
American Friends Service Committee.
Campaign for World Government (Organization).
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.).
International Labour Conference.
League for Industrial Democracy.
Minnesota Council of American-Soviet Friendship.
War Resisters League.
Persons:
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Boeckel, Florence Brewer, b. 1885.
Stockwell, Maud C.
Wilcox, Jean M.
Titles:
Pax International.
Pax et Libertas.
Four Lights.
Peace and Freedom.
American Unity.
Peace Action.
Conscription News.
The Conscientious Objector.
Fellowship Journal.
Pacific Citizen.
Northwest Pacifist.
The Minneapolis Unitarian.
Occupation:
Women pacifists -- Minnesota.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Preferred Citation:
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here]. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Minnesota
Branch Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
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Accession Information:
Accession numbers: 10,444; 10,838; 11,491; 11,464; 11,611; 11,612;
11,765; 11,947; 12,006; 13,427; 13,504; 13,630; 14,484; 15,117; 15,903
Processing Information:
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Catalog ID number: 001734569
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
International Records
Files produced by the WILPF International office in Geneva,
Switzerland and distributed to international members. Included are
constitutions, circular letters (mainly from the 1940s), material pertaining to
International Congresses (printed proceedings of International Congresses are
cataloged separately in MHS library), pamphlets on the history of WILPF, and
scattered copies of the international newsletter, 1929-1977.
149.E.4.3B
1
Constitution, bylaws, and rules of order, 1934.
Circular letters, 1938-1949, 1958-1962.
10 folders.
International Congresses:
4th Congress: Washington, D.C., 1924.
Booklet of statements from the delegates.
5th Congress: Dublin, 1926.
Notes taken by Minnesota delegate Maud Stockwell.
7th Congress: Grenoble, 1932.
8th Congress: Zurich, 1934.
9th Congress: Luhacovice, Czechoslovakia, 1937.
10th Congress: Luxembourg, 1946.
11th Congress: Copenhagen, 1949.
12th Congress: Paris, 1953.
14th Congress: Stockholm, 1959.
2 folders.
15th Congress: Asilomar, California, 1962.
21st Triennial Congress: New Haven, Connecticut,
August 1980.
27th Triennial Congress: Baltimore, 1998.
Executive committe, 1948, 1960.
Pamphlets on history of WILPF, 1936-1962.
LOWUN International News,
1947-1950.
Pax International
newsletter, 1929-1950.
3 folders.
Pax et Libertas newsletter,
1950-1973, 1976-1977, 1995.
2 folders.
United States Branch Records
Files of the United States Branch of WILPF that were collected and
maintained by Minnesota branch members who were national officers, participated
in national committees and attended national conventions. Included are
constitutions and bylaws, annual meeting files (largely 1933-1970, though some
predate and some postdate those dates), board of directors minutes (1935-1968),
branch letters, national newsletters from 1940s to 1980s, miscellaneous items
(1932-1988), and subject files which include national membership directories,
committee files, and pamphlets on the history of WILPF.
149.E.4.3B
1
Constitutions and bylaws, 1922, 1934-1991.
Annual meeting files:
Includes programs, committee reports, minutes, resolutions,
notes, and correspondence.
Cleveland, Ohio, April 29-May 2, 1927.
Washington, D.C., May 20-22, 1933.
Milwaukee, May 24-26, 1934.
Washington, D.C., May 2-5, 1935.
St. Louis, May 1-4, 1936.
Washington, D.C., April 30-May 3, 1937.
Minneapolis, April 29-May 2, 1938.
Washington, D.C., May 4-6, 1939.
Pittsburgh, April 27-30, 1940.
Washington, D.C., May 1-4, 1941.
Philadelphia, May 7-10, 1942.
149.E.4.4F
2
New York City, April 29-May 3, 1943.
Washington, D.C., April 26-30, 1944.
Haverford, Pennsylvania, May 3-6, 1945.
New York City, May 2-5, 1946.
Philadelphia, April 24-27, 1947.
Pine Lake, Michigan, May 13-16, 1948.
Hartford, Connecticut, May 5-8, 1949.
Cazenovia, New York, June 18-24, 1950.
Oakland, California, July 10-15, 1955.
Oberlin, Ohio, June 14-18, 1956.
Miami Beach, Florida, June 9-13, 1957.
Appleton, Wisconsin, June 20-24, 1958.
Auburndale, Massachusetts, June 16-21, 1959.
Washington, D.C., June 18-22, 1960.
Saint Paul, June 26-30, 1961.
Atlantic City, May 4-6, 1962.
Estes Park, Colorado, June 23-28, 1963.
Indianapolis, June 26-July 1, 1964.
Philadelphia, October 13-17, 1965.
St. Louis, June 10-13, 1966.
Pacific Grove, California, June 19-24, 1967.
Painesville, Ohio, June 28-July 2, 1968.
Atlanta, June 26-30, 1969.
Waukesha, Wisconsin, June 10-14, 1970.
Minneapolis, June 25-29, 1975.
Miami, June 23-26, 1977.
Board of Directors/Executive Board Minutes and
Resolutions:
1927, 1935-1947.
12 folders.
149.E.4.5B
3
1948-1951.
4 folders.
1955-1956.
1958-1968.
1976.
Branch letters, 1934-1968.
12 folders.
Labor letters, 1937.
Legislative memorandums and bulletins, 1957-1975.
3 folders.
Organization letters, 1939-1949.
2 folders.
Program/Action letters, 1966-1983.
7 folders.
Washington newsletter, 1949-1969.
6 folders.
Four Lights newsletter,
1941-1952.
2 folders.
149.E.4.6F
4
Four Lights newsletter,
1953-1970.
3 folders.
Peace and Freedom
newsletter, 1970-1982.
3 folders.
Brochures, undated and [1930s-1980s].
7 folders.
Miscellaneous document files, undated and 1932-1958.
27 folders.
149.E.4.7B
5
Miscellaneous document files, 1958-1979.
23 folders.
Miscellaneous document files, 1982-1988, 1995.
2 folders.
Subject and Committee Files:
An Open Letter to the DAR, July 1927.
Written by Carrie Chapman Catt and reprinted by WILPF.
Anniversaries:
20th Anniversary of WILPF, 1935.
35th Anniversary of WILPF, 1950.
50th Anniversary of WILPF, 1965.
75th Anniversary of WILPF, 1990.
80th Anniversary of WILPF, 1995.
Biographies of various WILPF officers, undated.
Board of Directors ballots, 1940-1965.
Childhood Education Committee, 1958-1968.
149.E.4.8F
6
Civil Liberties Committee, 1958-1969.
2 folders.
Davis-Dubois, Rachel, [late 1930s].
Detzer, Dorothy, 1934-1935.
Developing branch groups, [1950s].
A Directory of Small Groups Seeking Peace: South,
Midwest, West USA, April 1984.
Engagement calendars, 1943-1963.
Financial statements, 1938-1958.
Fund-raising manual, ca. 1962.
Handbooks and Directories:
Listings of names and addresses of national officers and
committee members, as well as officers and other leaders of the state branches.
July 1936.
October 1937.
September 1939.
September 1945.
November 1946.
June 1947.
September 1948.
October 1949.
January 1951.
February 1957.
January 1961.
September 1962, September 1963.
September 1964, October 1965.
September 1966.
September 1970.
October 1971.
October 1972.
October 1973.
October 1974.
October 1975.
1989.
1996.
Histories of the United States section of WILPF,
1929-1988.
How to Organize a Public Function, [1970s].
Human Rights Committee, 1954-1969.
Jane Addams Centennial, 1959-1962.
2 folders.
Jane Addams Children's Book Award, 1960.
Jane Addams Peace Fund, 1944-1953.
Jane Addams Peace Association: Learning Peace, A
Resource Unit, 1972.
Labor Committee, 1944-1969.
4 folders.
Leader's manual, ca. 1968-1973.
Literature Department:
undated and [1930s].
8 folders.
149.E.4.9B
7
[1930s].
2 folders.
[1940s].
9 folders.
[1950s].
6 folders.
[1960s-1970s].
Non-WILPF literature, 1929-1957.
4 folders.
Membership information, 1957-1968.
Membership manual, 1959-1967.
National Scientific Contacts Committee, 1966-1969.
News releases, 1965-1980.
Outline of committee work, June 1956.
Peace pressure primer, 1936.
Plan of organization for local branches, [1930s].
Planks recommended to political parties, 1936, 1948,
1952, 1956.
Political action handbook, 1955.
Political action handbook, 1967.
Principles and policies, 1931-1977.
3 folders.
Publicity handbook, January 1940.
Religious Contacts Standing Committee, 1959-1968.
Suggestions for local chapters, [1940s-1960s].
Testimony before congressional committees, 1958-1971.
United Nations Committee, 1965-1969.
Women's poll project handbook, 1984.
Work of standing committees, [ca. 1938].
Minnesota State Branch Records
The bulk of this collection are the files of the Minnesota State
Branch of WILPF which consists of constitutions and bylaws; minutes from 1922
to 2000 (with some gaps); annual meeting materials 1925-1999; historical
sketches; miscellaneous items filed by year 1930-1999; an alphabetically
arranged subject file (boxes 10-31); correspondence; financial records;
membership lists; newspaper clippings and scrapbooks; audio-visual material
including video tapes, slides, and photographs.
149.E.4.10F
8
Constitutions and bylaws, 1935-1994.
2 folders.
Board of Directors Minutes:
1922-1924.
1925-1926.
1927-1930.
1931-1935.
1936.
1937.
1938-1939.
1940-1942.
1943-1955.
Widely scattered.
1956-1963.
Widely scattered.
1966-1975.
1976-1979.
1980-1982.
1983-1985, 1989.
1994-1996.
1997.
1998-2000.
Annual Meeting Files:
Includes calls, agendas, minutes, reports, resolutions,
financial reports, ballots, etc.
1925-1940.
12 folders.
Missing: 1927, 1931.
149.E.5.1B
9
1941-1999.
49 folders.
Missing: 1953, 1972, 1974, 1993, 1994.
Annual reports of the Minnesota Branch,
1925-2000.
Includes 1925-1933, 1937-1942, 1947, 1960, 1987, 1995-1996,
1998, 2000.
Annual reports of the state chairman, 1925-1935.
Historical Sketches of the Minnesota Branch of WILPF:
Maud Stockwell article, 1934.
A History of the Minnesota Branch, 1922-1942 by
Claudia Geitzen, 1993.
Miscellaneous information, 1949-1995.
Miscellaneous Fliers and Other Documents:
Undated and 1930-1983.
32 folders.
149.E.5.2F
10
1984-1999.
4 folders.
Subject Files:
Abbott Memorial Fund, 1936-1937.
Abortion legislation, 1973-1974.
Adamic, Louis, 1940-1950.
Advisory council, 1996-1997.
Affiliated groups, 1938.
Africa:
Miscellaneous pamphlets.
2 folders.
American Committee on Africa:
Correspondence, 1956-1962.
Africa Today
newsletter, 1955-1965.
Alexander, John G., 1939-1940.
America First Committee, [1930s].
American Civil Liberties Union, 1936-1964.
3 folders.
American Friends Service Committee:
Miscellaneous pamphlets, [1940s].
3 folders.
Correspondence, 1942-1952.
Clothing bulletin, 1943-1949.
Clothing relief, 1943-1949.
American League Against War and Facism, 1933-1937.
2 folders.
American Peace Mobilization, 1940-1941.
American Peace Terms Committee, 1945-1949.
American Veterans Committee, 1950.
149.E.5.3B
11
Americans for Democratic Action publication,
The Only War We Seek, 1950.
Anti-Inflation, 1943.
Art for World Friendship, [ca. 1950].
Asia, 1932-1951.
Atomic Energy Control:
Pamphlets, 1945-1950.
2 folders.
Association of Los Alamos Scientists, 1945-1946.
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, 1946-1948.
Federation of American Scientists, 1946.
National Committee on Atomic Information, 1946-1947.
Raymond Swing radio broadcasts, 1945-1946.
Ballots for state board of directors, 1938-1970.
Biographical Information: International, National and
State Figures:
Addams, Jane.
2 folders.
Baker, Margie.
Balch, Emily Greene.
Brittain, Vera.
Gage-Colby, Ruth.
Hendrickson, Viena Johnson.
Nicols, Alice B.
Olmsted, Mildred Scott.
Schwimmer, Rosika.
Stewart, Annalee.
Stockwell, Maud.
Thomson, Margaret.
Wilcox, Jean.
Includes her 1938 article, "Why I am a Liberal."
Bretton Woods Conference, 1944.
Brochures of the Minnesota branch of WILPF, [1930s].
Candidates questionnaires:
1936, 1938, 1972, 1982.
4 folders.
Capital punishment, 1960.
Catholic Association for International Peace,
1939-1942.
Caucus for Radical Economic Change, undated.
Chicago Southside WILPF group, 1952.
Childhood Education for Peace, [1960s].
Study materials for parents and teachers.
Children's Plea for Peace, 1951-1952.
China:
Miscellaneous pamphlets, [1930s-1970s].
Chinese News Service: Contemporary China, 1944.
Chinese women's tour of United States, 1989.
Citizens' Committee on Reciprocal World Trade, 1948.
Citizens' Peace Petition Committee, 1941.
Civil defense, 1952-1960.
Civil rights, 1948-1960.
149.E.5.4F
12
Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy,
1975-1978.
2 folders.
Colonialism, 1935-1956.
Commission to Study the Organization of Peace,
1940-1944.
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies,
1940-1941.
Committee to Defend America by Waging Peace, 1940.
Committee for World Development and World Disarmament:
Bibliographies, 1957-1966.
Fact sheets, 1958-1961.
Fliers and pamphlets, undated and 1953-1966.
Monthly bulletins, 1956-1964.
Reports and memos, 1956-1963.
Common Council for American Unity, 1940-1952.
Communist Party:
Earl Browder publications, 1938-1941.
Other fliers and publications, 1935-1949.
2 folders.
Conference on Minorities, Chicago, 1934.
Congress (United States):
Miscellaneous fliers and publications, 1946-1969.
Various communications from Minnesota congressional
delegation, 1942-1948.
Conscientious Objection:
Various fliers and publications, [1930s-1940s].
2 folders.
The Conscientious Objector
newsletter, 1941-1943.
Conscription:
American Friends Service Committee fliers and
pamphlets, [1940s].
Anti-Conscription Committee, [1930s].
Committee on Militarism in Education, 1933-1940.
Committee to Oppose Conscription of Women,
1943-1944.
Conscription News
newspaper, 1945-1955.
2 folders.
Fellowship of Reconciliation fliers and pamphlets,
[1950s].
Military draft, 1968-1988.
Military draft repeal, 1971.
Military training and schools, [1930s-1950s].
Minnesota Council Against Conscription, 1945-1948.
Minnesota Council Against Universal Military
Training, 1955.
149.E.5.5B
13
National Council Against Conscription:
Various fliers and pamphlets, undated and
[1930s-1950s].
9 folders.
No-Conscription Campaign, 1940.
Universal military training, 1946-1952.
Villard, Oswald Garrison articles, 1936-1944.
Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription, 1945-1947.
Youth committees, 1937-1945.
Constitutional Money League of America, 1942-1944.
Cooperatives:
Various fliers and pamphlets, [1930s-1940s].
5 folders.
Midland Cooperative Wholesale, Minneapolis,
[1930s-1940s].
Council Against Intolerance in America:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1947-1956.
American Unity
magazine, 1944-1953.
2 folders.
Court watching, 1971.
Cousins, Norman: Convocation address, May 1957.
Czechoslovakia, 1938.
149.E.5.6F
14
Debate: Norman Thomas vs. Dean Everett Fraser, October
1941.
Detzer, Dorothy, 1935.
Disarmament:
Various fliers and pamphlets, [1940s-1970s].
11 folders.
Committee for World Development and World
Disarmament Bulletin, 1955-1964.
2 folders.
International Women's Year disarmament meeting,
1975.
Duluth Women Speak: On the U.N. Decade for Women
conference, November 11, 1987.
Dumbarton Oaks Conference, 1944-1945.
East and West Association, 1943-1948.
Economic policies, [1930s-1940s].
Economy, taxes, budget, 1968-1976.
Education:
Various fliers and pamphlets, undated and 1944.
Study outlines, projects, etc., 1940-1941.
Education for Peace, 1935-1944.
2 folders.
Learning Peace curriculum, [1970s].
149.E.5.7B
15
Emergency Peace Campaign, 1936-1940.
Exploring Women's Economic Justice conference,
February 10, 1996.
Fair Employment Practices, [1940s].
4 folders.
Far Eastern situation, 1937-1938.
Farm correspondence, 1937-1938.
Farm labor, 1942-1943.
Farmers Union, 1937-1938.
Feed the Cities, Not the Pentagon, 1975-1978.
Fellowship of Reconciliation:
Fellowship Journal,
1937-1944.
5 folders.
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1940-1952.
5 folders.
Food and rehabilitation, undated and 1939-1948.
2 folders.
Food Relief:
Food for Freedom, Inc., 1944-1945.
International Rescue Committee Inc., 1947-1950.
International Solidarity Committee, 1947.
Meals for Millions Foundation, 1951.
National Committee on Food for the Small
Democracies, 1941.
Foreign Policy Association:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1934-1950.
Bulletin, 1932-1959.
Scattered issues.
Washington Newsletter,
1936-1937.
Minneapolis branch, 1937-1952.
Formosa, 1955.
149.E.5.8F
16
Fourth World Conference on Women, September 1995:
General information, 1994-1995.
Countdown to Beijing study and action group,
1993-1995.
All China Women's Federation, April 24, 1994.
Beijing Economic Working Group, 1997-1999.
Building on Beijing Conference, September 7, 1996.
Post Beijing Women's Economic Justice, 1995-1996.
Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1944-1956.
3 folders.
Friends group, Minneapolis, 1943-1950.
Friends group, Iowa, 1944-1951.
Friends of Democracy, Inc., 1945-1947.
Future of Minnesota chapter of WILPF, 1996.
Garland Fund, undated.
"Free Love" fund.
Gertrud Baer International Women's Seminar, July
21-29, 1988.
Great Britian, 1939-1943.
Great Peace March, 1986.
Grinnell Institute on International Relations:
1935-1937, 1942-1943.
3 folders.
Guatemala, 1954.
Hallie Q. Brown Community House (St. Paul):
Miscellaneous fliers and pamphlets, 1938-1946.
Kindergarten playground, 1940.
Health organizations:
Committee for the Nation's Health, 1944-1951.
Hearst, William Randolph, 1935-1936.
Hiroshima Remembrance, 1995.
Human Rights:
Miscellaneous fliers and pamphlets, [1930s-1960s].
5 folders.
For Afro-Americans, [1940s-1960s].
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born,
[1950s].
Civil Liberties, [1940s-1950s].
2 folders.
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The Committee of 100, 1944-1960.
Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.),
[1940s-1960s].
Education, 1948.
Governor's Interracial Commission of Minnesota,
1945-1949.
Housing, [1950s-1960s].
2 folders.
Kutcher Civil Rights Committee, 1949-1956.
Lynchings, 1935-1940.
Minneapolis, [1940s-1950s].
Minneapolis Urban League, 1940-1956.
3 folders.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (N.A.A.C.P), Minneapolis branch, 1943-1957.
National Committee for Justice in Columbia,
Tennessee, 1946.
National Urban League, [1940s].
Race relations, [1940s-1960s].
St. Paul Urban League, 1942-1944.
Humanist Groups:
Miscellaneous fliers and pamphlets, [1930s-1950s].
American Humanist Association, 1940-1958.
American Unitarian Association:
Various fliers and pamphlets, [1940s-1950s].
4 folders.
Children, [1940s-1950s].
Unitarian Service Committee, [1940s-1950s].
Tributes to Thomas Paine, 1928-1937.
First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, 1933-1949.
2 folders.
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The Minneapolis Unitarian,
1936-1950.
Minnesota Unitarian Conference, 1946-1949.
Unity Church of St. Paul: Sermons of Arthur Foote,
1949.
Immigration policies, 1938-1954.
Independent Voters of Minnesota, 1942-1949.
Indian Affairs:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1952-1959.
Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc.:
Correspondence, 1949-1962.
Newsletter, 1954-1962.
India, 1942-1945.
Indochina, Indonesia, Thailand, 1953-1955.
Institute of Pacific Relations, 1942-1944.
2 folders.
Institute of World Affairs, 1953.
Institute on the Post War World, March 13-14, 1942.
Held in Minneapolis.
Integration of schools, 1954-1960.
Inter-American committee, 1936-1947.
2 folders.
Inter-American Congress of Women, 1947.
International Institute, June 1950.
Held at Cazenovia Junior College, Cazenovia, New York.
International Institute, Inc. (St. Paul), 1944-1953.
International Labour Conference, 1944.
6 folders.
Held in Philadelphia and Jean Wilcox was a delegate.
International Labor Organization:
Constitutions, 1937, 1941.
Pamphlets, [1940s].
2 folders.
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International Labor Office:
Pamphlets, 1938-1944.
2 folders.
International Peace Garden, 1936-1937.
International Rendezvous, February 1937.
Interracial correspondence and programs, 1936-1938.
Jane Addams Centennial Minnesota promotions,
1959-1960.
Jane Addams Peace House, Minneapolis plans, 1948.
Jane Addams Silver Tea, May 17, 1949.
Japan:
Miscellaneous fliers and pamphlets, 1944-1951.
American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese
Aggression, 1936-1941.
Committee for a Boycott against Japanese Agression,
1937-1938.
Japanese American Citizens League:
Pacific Citizen
newspaper, 1944-April 1946.
5 folders.
JACL Reporter
newsletter, 1945-1946.
Miscellaneous information, 1943-1946.
Resettlement of Japanese-Americans, 1942-1945.
Jews:
Miscellaneous fliers and pamphlets, undated and
1938-1955.
12 folders.
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American Christian Palestine Committee, 1946-1953.
American League for a Free Palestine Inc.,
1944-1948.
Anti-Defamation League, 1946-1948.
Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of
Europe, Inc., 1943-1944.
Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota,
1960-1961.
Jewish Information Series, 1943.
Three pamphlets entitled, "The Story of the Jews in the
United States," "Democracy and the Jew," and "In Freedom's Cause."
Joint Committee for Employment Opportunity, 1950-1952.
Joint Committee for Equal Opportunity, 1959-1963.
Joint Peace Committee of Minnesota, 1937.
Judiciary reorganization, 1937.
Karl Levi letter to Adolf Hitler, 1937.
Handwritten letter in German.
Keep America Out of War Committee, 1938.
Keep America Out of War Congress:
Anti-war News Service, 1940-1941.
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1939-1941.
Kellogg-Briand Anti-War Pact, notes and clippings,
undated.
Korea:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1950.
Korean graduate student at University of Minnesota
(David Seung Bog Cho), 1950.
Labor:
Various fliers and pamphlets, [1930s-1940s].
5 folders.
Congress of Industrial Organizations (C.I.O.),
[1940s-1950s].
3 folders.
National Women's Trade Union League of America,
1942-1943.
Labor and Religion, [1940s].
Workers Education Conference, November 1942.
Latin America:
Various fliers and pamphlets, [1930s-1950s].
4 folders.
Anglo-American Caribbean Commission, 1942-1945.
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National Revolutionary Party of Mexico, June
1937-1938.
League for Independent Political Action, 1930-1935.
League for Industrial Democracy:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1943-1961.
2 folders.
News Bulletin, 1943-1961.
Other publications, 1939-1961.
League of Nations, 1930-1943.
3 folders.
League of Women Shoppers, Inc., 1942-1949.
Legislation, [1930s-1970s].
2 folders.
Legislation: Sheppard Hill Bill, 1938.
McCall's Magazine: Womenpower in Action, 1968-1969.
Member structure, 1996.
Memorial fund, 1936-1937.
Mid-Century Conference for Peace, May 29-30, 1950.
Held in Chicago.
Middle East, 1976.
Midwest Institute of International Relations:
Northwestern University, June 24-July 5, 1935.
Volume of 17 lectures given at this conference.
Northwestern University, June 22-July 3, 1936.
Volume of 23 lectures given at this conference.
North Central College, Naperville, Illinois, June
21-July 2, 1937.
Drake University, Des Moines, June 2-10, 1945.
Volume of the proceedings and other items.
Drake University, Des Moines, June 1-8, 1946.
Volume of the proceedings.
Drake University, June 10-18, 1948 (program).
Mid-West Peace and Freedom
newsletter, 1967-1987.
2 folders.
Items for the newsletter and scattered copies.
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Militarism in Education, 1923-1929.
2 folders.
Militarism in Education: Some Facts concerning
Military Training at State Universities, by Maud Stockwell, 1926.
Minneapolis Civil Rights Committee, 1940.
Minneapolis Peace Council, 1937-1939.
Minneapolis Public Forum, 1936.
Minneapolis Town Meeting, 1944-1953.
Minneapolis WPA Crisis of July 1939 report, January
1940.
Minnesota Birth Control League, 1940.
Minnesota Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy,
1957-1958.
Minnesota Committee for Peaceful Alternatives,
1950-1951.
Minnesota Council of American Soviet Friendship:
Correspondence, 1980-1987.
4 folders.
Newsletter, 1977-1988.
4 folders.
Resolutions, 1981-1984.
Minnesota Council for Civil and Human Rights,
1958-1960.
Minnesota Department of Education, Rockwell's
administration, July 1937, 1940-1941.
2 folders.
Minnesota Labor Institute, 1942-1945.
Minnesota Politics and Public Affairs, undated and
[1930s-1950s].
4 folders.
Minnesota State Conference of Social Work, 1937.
Minnesota Youth Assembly, 1937.
Minors Consent Law, 1973.
Miscellaneous items, undated.
2 folders.
Mondale, Walter, 1971-1976.
Motion pictures, 1937-1938.
Munitions, 1935-1937.
Multi-national corporations, 1973-1975.
National Child Labor Committee, 1938-1958.
2 folders.
National Conference for the Prevention of World War
III, June 1948.
Held at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.
National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War,
1935-1939.
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National Council for the Prevention of War:
News Bulletin, 1931-1933.
Peace Action
newsletter, 1934-1946.
5 folders.
Washington Information
Letter, 1937-1941.
Press releases, 1937-1941.
Pamphlets by Frederick J. Libby, 1934-1943.
Between War and Peace radio programs, 1938-1939.
Boeckel, Florence Brewer, "Between War and Peace"
columns, 1937-1941.
3 folders.
Boeckel, Florence Brewer, pamphlets by, 1935-1942.
2 folders.
Various fliers, pamphlets, publications,
[1930s-1940s].
6 folders.
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship,
1941-1949.
National League of Women Voters, 1943-1945.
National Peace Conference, 1935-1944.
2 folders.
National Planning Association, 1942-1951.
National Woman's Party, 1937.
Naval Appropriations, 1935.
Nearing, Scott, 1946-1952.
2 folders.
World Events as Interpreted by Scott Nearing.
Other writings of Scott Nearing.
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Neutrality, 1936-1939.
Neutrality Bloc Conference, April 10-12, 1939.
Held in Atlantic City.
The New Commonwealth, 1937-1939.
Newman, Cecil E., testimonial banquet, 1943.
No Frontier News Service:
undated, 1937-1939.
World Events
newsletter, 1934-1939.
World Over Press, 1942-1949.
Formerly No Frontier News Service.
World Interpreter, 1950-1955.
North Dakota trip, 1939-1940.
Notes, undated.
3 folders.
Mainly maintained by Jean Wilcox, but may contain notes from
other individuals.
Office logs, 1980-1988.
Six volumes in three folders documenting daily activity in the
state office.
Organizing trip, 1938.
Organizing and outreach, 1971-1972.
One World Meeting, August-September 1950.
Opium smoking, 1930-1937.
Other peace organizations, 1937-1940.
Pacifism:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1930s-1940s.
Northwest Pacifist,
1938-1939.
Published in Minneapolis.
Pakistan, 1953-1954.
Palestine, 1943-1945.
Peace gardening, 1955.
Peace News, 1942.
Peace Panarama, December
1936-May 1937.
2 folders.
Peace Stamp Project, 1938.
Peace Symbols by Zonia
Baber, 1937.
Peace symbols, 1935-1938.
Peace terms, 1942-1944.
Peace quilt, 1994-1995.
People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, 1973-1976.
The People's Lobby, Inc.:
Correspondence, 1932-1950.
Bulletin, 1944-1950.
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Peoples Mandate to End War, 1935-1942.
Phyllis Wheatley House, 1938.
Poetry, undated and 1938-1975.
Poll of opinion, 1939.
Poll Tax, 1941-1949.
Post War World Council:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1942-1950.
2 folders.
News Bulletin, 1942-1955.
3 folders.
Posters and charts, [ca. 1937].
Press releases, [ca. 1940].
Progressive Education Association, 1943-1948.
Project ELF, [1980s].
2 folders.
Propaganda, 1940.
Includes a book by Harold Levine and James Wechsler published
by Yale University Press in 1940 entitled, War Propaganda
and the United States.
Public Action Committee, 1937-1938.
Public Affairs Institute, Bold New Program Series,
1950.
8 booklets in two folders.
Public Affairs Pamphlets, 1944, 1960.
Public Education Research Committee, 1975.
Public Housing, 1934-1937.
Puerto Rico, 1934-1946.
Radio:
KUXL-FCC radio controversy, 1973-1976.
Various fliers and pamphlets. 1934-1943.
Radio and movies, 1940s.
Radio interview with Jean Wilcox, WDAY Fargo, [ca.
1940].
Radio Scripts:
Youth Looks Ahead, December 9, 1944.
The Closed Door, undated.
Patriotism Revisited, undated.
Radio skits, undated.
Record of votes in U.S. Congress, [ca. 1936].
Refugees and Displaced Persons:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1939-1959.
American Friends Service Committee pamphlets,
1939-1952.
Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons, 1948-1950.
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Regional Conference in Detroit, October 22-23, 1939.
Regional Conference in Minneapolis, April 18-19, 1941.
Relief: Food, clothing, care packages, 1947-1948.
Religious groups, [1930s-1950s].
5 folders.
Reorganization: Mrs. Williams correspondence, 1939.
Resolutions, [1930s-1940s].
3 folders.
Rising Tide of Violence Conference, April 11, 1967.
Russia, 1932-1953.
2 folders.
San Diego film forums, 1945.
Sandstone Prison Project, 1973-1974.
Sanger, Margaret, 1936-1937.
Saturday Lunch Club, Minneapolis, 1940, 1947-1948.
Save the Children Federation, 1945-1951.
Schwietzer, Albert, 1955-1957.
Seabed treaty, 1973.
Sharecroppers, 1939-1963.
Shipstead, Henrik, 1939-1941.
Signal Fires, 1935-1936.
Published by Emergency Education Division of Minnesota
Department of Education.
Signers of "I am against War" cards, March 1937.
Sino-Japanese crisis, October 1937.
Socialist Workers Party:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1934-1948.
The Call/The Word,
1942-1953.
South Africa, 1957-1958.
Spain:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1936-1937.
Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, 1937.
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Speaking engagements:
Dr. Edward C. Lindeman, November 6, 1936.
Speakers for meetings, 1937-1941.
Marie Lous-Mohr, October 1948.
Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, November
20, 1948.
Dorothy Medders Robinson, December 1949.
Gladys Walser, February 17-20, 1950.
Wood, Graves, Jouve, 1950.
Annalee Stewart, December 1951.
Eleonore Romberg, May 16, 1988.
Speeches and statements of U.S. Congressmen
(Congressional Record), 1931-1955.
Stassen, Harold, 1942-1947.
State Emergency Relief Adminstration Project, [1930s].
Minnesota Department of Education Home Study Program on peace
issues. Titles of booklets are Unit One: The Struggle for Peace; Unit Two: The
Italo-Ethiopian War; Unit Three: What are the Roots of Modern Wars?; Lesson
One: What is Consumers Cooperation; Lesson Three: History of the Cooperative
Movement since 1844.
State Fair and MEA literature booths, 1938-1971.
3 folders.
Stillwater Community College, 1940.
Stop the Arms Race (S.T.A.R.), 1981-1983.
Student Patroit League, 1936.
of West High School, Minneapolis.
Student Project for Amity Among Nations (S.P.A.N.),
1948.
Swarthmore College Peace Collection:
Memorial to Jane Addams, 1947.
Theater:
Various fliers and pamphlets, undated and 1936-1937.
A Narrative of Peace,
undated.
Peace on Earth, 1935.
Bury the Dead,
1936-1937.
Toward the Light, [ca.
1939].
A pageant by Anna Berggreen.
Toys and games, 1929-1967.
2 folders.
Union for Democratic Action, 1944-1945.
United Nations:
Various fliers and pamplets, undated and 1942-1957.
16 folders.
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United Nations Peace Keeping - Study and Action -
United World Federalists, 1965-1967.
International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (World Bank), 1947.
United States Committee for UNICEF, [1950s].
3 folders.
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), 1956-1957.
2 folders.
Food and Agricultual Organization (FAO), 1943-1949.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration (UNRRA), 1943-1945.
American Association for the United Nations:
Peoples Section bulletin, 1949-1953.
Minnesota United Nations Association, 1943-1953.
Minneapolis Women's Rally Commitee, 1945-1953.
United States Committee Against Militarization, 1951.
United World Federalists, Inc., 1948-1966.
Universal Military Training:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1946-1951.
At University of Minnesota, undated.
Upper Midwest Consortium of Peace Educators,
1976-1978.
Vietnam:
Adult Study Group Summary, Peace in Vietnam,
Minneapolis Friends Meeting, May 15, 1966.
American Friends Service Committee, 1966-1969.
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam,
1967-1970.
People's Commission of Inquiry into the Solution of
the War in Vietnam, 1970.
3 folders.
Peace poll, 1972.
Political prisoners, 1973.
Various fliers and pamphlets, undated, 1963-1965.
4 folders.
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Various fliers and pamphlets, 1966-1974, 1977.
10 folders.
Opposition in Minnesota, undated and 1965-1974.
4 folders.
Minnesota Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam,
1967-1975.
Minnesota Peace Action Coalition, 1972.
Voice of thy Brother's Blood, 1944.
Volunteer Work Camp:
Kitchen economy, 1939.
Literature and library, 1939.
Organization and report, 1939.
Correspondence, 1939-1940.
4 folders.
Enrollment, 1940.
Promotion and publicity, 1938-1940.
2 folders.
Quakers and others, 1938-1941.
Treasurer's book, 1940.
Waller, Odell, 1942.
War Resisters League:
Various fliers and pamphlets, 1942-1962.
2 folders.
WRL News, 1945-1966.
The War Resister,
1945-1951.
Wiggins, Forrest O., 1952.
Women of Color Caucus, 1994-1995.
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Women's Action Committee for Lasting Peace:
Correspondence, 1946-1949.
Backlog for Action
newsletter, 1946-1951.
Women's Coalition Action Agenda, 1994.
Women's Information Exchange, 1940-1941.
WILPF Great Day Peace Trains, 1996.
Women's Skills Bank, 1973-1974.
Women's peace groups (general), 1921-1950.
Women's poll, Twin Cities area, 1984.
Work Camp: Coal Areas Work Camp report, 1938.
Workers Defense League, 1940-1967.
3 folders.
Worker's education, 1943-1944.
World Court, 1929-1935.
World Fellowship, Inc., 1943.
World Frienship Evenings, 1937-1938.
Held at the Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis.
World Friendship Periods (radio), 1937-1938.
World Friendship Radio Council, 1941.
World Goodwill Day, 1935-1937.
World Government:
Various fliers and pamphlets, [1930s-1940s].
6 folders.
Americans United for World Organization, Inc.,
1945-1946.
Campaign for World Government:
Correspondence, 1940-1952.
Congressional questionnaire, 1956.
World Federation Now,
1939-1950.
World Government Day: National Peace Conference,
1941-1944.
World Health Organization, 1956-1959.
World Organization of Mothers of All Nations, Inc.,
1948.
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Young Women's Caucus, 1996-1997.
2 folders.
Youth groups, 1933-1938.
Pamphlet Files:
Pamphlets by Kirby Page, [1940s-1950s].
Undated and 1931-1960.
22 folders.
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Correspondence:
Undated and 1923-May 1939.
35 folders.
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June 1939-1948.
27 folders.
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1948-1981.
34 folders.
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1982-1995 (widely scattered).
2 folders.
Financial Records:
Receipt book, 1921-1922.
Treasurer's book, December 1935-September 1969.
Budget, 1935-1983.
Widely scattered.
Correspondence, 1936-1938.
2 folders.
Financial reports, 1938-1989.
Treasurer's reports, 1938-1941, 1946-1947.
Membership Records:
Membership list, undated.
List of those interested in WILPF; by city, [1930s].
Membership lists, 1935-1937.
Membership lists, 1937-1964.
Membership lists, 1969-1976.
Membership lists, 1977-1980.
Membership lists, 1981-1982.
Membership lists, 1985.
Board of directors and committee lists, 1940-1977.
International members, 1922-1964.
2 folders.
Potential members (lists of names etc.), 1937-1986.
3 folders.
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Newspaper Clippings:
Undated, 1926, 1930-1973.
39 folders.
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Mounted newspaper clippings, WILPF activities,
1928-1931.
19 sheets in oversize folder.
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1974-1988.
6 folders.
Audio-visual Materials:
Peace Talk Videos:
Nine color videos produced by the Minnesota branch of WILPF.
and Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) between 1985 and 1988.
Irene Eckert of the West German peace movement
responding to the proposed placement of Pershing missiles in Germany, May 21,
1985. 33 minutes, 24 seconds.
Margaret Thomson, a long time Minnesota WILPF member
is interviewed about her life by Janet Kinney, July 23, 1985. Two sessions of
about 30 minutes each.
Justine Merritt is interviewed by Patty Guerrero,
April 5, 1986. Three sessions of about 15 minutes each.
Merritt was the organizer of tying a ribbon around the
Pentagon in 1985.
Coyote and the Swallowing Monster: A puppet show for
kids performed by Margo McCreary and Emily Anderson, July 4, 1986. 32 minutes
and 53 seconds.
Betty Ellis, peace candidate in Minnesota House
district 63A is interviewed by Janet Kinney, July 22, 1986. Two sessions of
around 25 minutes each; Mary Shepard is interviewed by Betty Ellis on March 19,
1987 for about 26 minutes; and Pam Costain is interviewed by Janet Kinney about
the war in Central America on April 18, 1987. Length is about 25 minutes.
Woods Haley, Physics professor at the University of
Minnesota is interviewed by Janet Kinney about President Reagan's Strategic
Defense Intiative (SDI), also known as "Star Wars," on October 25, 1986. 29
minutes, 53 seconds.
Shary Zoff, who spent time living in Nicaragua, is
interviewed about her experiences by Janet Kinney on July 24, 1987. About 25
minutes.
Carol Constant, of Contragate Watch, is interviewed
by Ben Martin on January 15, 1988. Concerns the using of money earned in drug
sales for arming the Contras in Nicaragua. 28 minutes, 22 seconds.
Karen Starr is interviewed by Sally Flax of
Minnesota Worldwide Women about the women's movement and social change,
September 1988. About 15 minutes.
Slides: People's Commission of Inquiry into the
Solution of the War in Vietnam.
Slides still in carousel.
Reel-to-Reel tape (28 and 58 second radio spots).
Cassettee tapes.
2 cassettees.
One tape on the 1975 annual meeting of the Minnesota chapter
and an other containing two radio advertisements for WILPF by actress Joanne
Woodward.
Photographs, 1964-1986.
+ 294
Oversize folder: Art work
Pencil drawing and hand colored of women from around the
world, in native dress, forming a circle holding hands. Caption is Peace on
Earth. Artist was Viena Hendrickson's daughter, Jeanne, when she was a child
(1950s-1960s?). On cardboard.
Minnesota Local Branch Records
Documentation of some of the local chapters that existed for a
time in various Minnesota communities (most from the late 1930s). The
Minneapolis and St. Paul chapters are most fully documented, but even so, much
of their material is widely scattered as to time period and isn't very
voluminous. Researchers should also check the correspondence files for more
information on chapter organization and activities in Minnesota.
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Brainerd (Crow Wing County), 1937-1941.
Carver, 1935-1938.
Duluth, 1936-1939.
Hibbing, 1957-1959.
Kandiyohi County, 1939-1941.
Metro Branch:
Choice Cookery cookbook, 1992.
I See Hope in Your Eyes: Information and Resource
Guide about Female Genital Mutilation Worldwide, 1999.
Minneapolis Branch:
Constitutions and bylaws, undated and 1959.
Annual meetings, 1937-1968.
4 folders.
Ballots for board of directors, 1937-1966.
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Correspondence, undated and 1938-1946.
3 folders.
Minutes:
1948-1951.
1963-1969.
Newsletter:
1947-1968.
3 folders.
Twin Cities Bulletin, 1965-1966.
Membership Lists:
1923-1930, 1935-1963, 1966-1969.
4 folders.
Treasurer's Books:
May 1943-June 1969.
2 volumes.
Finances, 1946-1969.
Christmas card albums, 1938-1971.
2 albums.
Christmas card sales, 1941-1950.
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Civil Defense Drills, 1961-1962.
Guest books, 1955-1957.
2 volumes.
Human relations, 1948-1949.
Jane Addams tea, 1978.
Statement on Korea, September 15, 1950.
Parker restaurant case, 1944.
Youth section, 1937.
Montevideo branch, 1936-1939.
Northfield, 1938-1941.
Rochester, 1938.
St. Cloud, 1938-1941.
St. Cloud: Anne P. Graves correspondence, 1940-1951.
St. Paul Branch:
Bylaws, undated.
Correspondence, 1936-1967.
Minutes:
September 1948 - October 1951.
1956-1960.
Membership lists, 1922-1963.
2 folders.
Treasurer's reports, 1962-1963.
Delegates to national convention, 1938.
Handbook and program, 1938-1939.
Workshop on Human Rights, March 7, 1959.
Reorganization, 1946-1948.
Jane Addams book project, 1964-1965.
South Suburban Branch:
Correspondence, 1958-1967.
Minutes, 1958-1968.
Virginia, 1938-1940.
White Bear Lake, 1938.
Winona, 1938.
Other State Branch Records
Files from other WILPF chapters from around the United States
consisting mainly of newsletters, publications, and event notices. Material is
widely scattered from the 1930s to the 1970s and is not terribly voluminous.
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California, various chapters, 1938-1975.
Colorado-Denver, 1958-1959.
Illinois, various chapters, 1960-1974.
Indiana-Indianapolis, 1974.
Iowa, 1972.
Maryland, 1940-1945.
Massachusetts, 1943-1944.
Michigan, 1941-1956.
New Jersey, 1935-1943.
New York, 1936-1943.
North Carolina, 1958.
Pennsylvania, various chapters, 1932-1961.
Washington-Seattle, 1961-1965.
Wisconsin, 1959-1961.