APPENDIX B A Partial Chronology of the Metropolitan New York Branch of WILPF
THIS IS a partial chronology highlighting the work of the New York City women of WILPF. The data was part of the work of the WILPF Metropolitan New York Branch History Project.
August 1914
War breaks out in Europe
November 1914
Founding of the Woman's Peace Party of New York City (later changed to Woman's Peace Party of New York); New York City women belong to
both local and state WPP branches
January 1915
Founding of national Woman's Peace Party; New York City group becomes a local branch
April 1915
Madeline Doty, of N.Y.-WPP, attends first meeting in The Hague of International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace
January 1916
N.Y.-WPP sponsors mass meeting at Cooper Union to protest military training in public school physical education classes
Spring 1916
N.Y.-WPP sponsors "War Against War" art exhibit that travels from Brooklyn to Manhattan and then to Chicago and Massachusetts
April 1917
U.S. joins war effort in Europe
July 1917
Four Lights, newsletter of the N.Y.-WPP, prints its most infamous issue, which criticizes women who knit socks for soldiers for taking jobs away from mill workers.
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Publication Information: Book Title: Peace as a Women's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women's Rights. Contributors: Harriet Hyman Alonso - author. Publisher: Syracuse University Press. Place of Publication: Syracuse, NY. Publication Year: 1993. Page Number: 279.
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