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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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