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[identification of item], “Have You This Information Concerning the World War?” Leaflet Produced by Women’s Peace Society, SPEC.RARE.MMS.0329, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University
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Processed by: Mackenzie Sommers, 2019 March; Finding aid written by: Mackenzie Sommers, 2019 March.
World War I was a global war fought from 1914-1918 between the Allied Powers and Central Powers. The United States had previously maintained a policy of isolationism advocated by President Woodrow Wilson, but in 1917, due to Germany's use of submarine warfare and the sentiment to "make the world safe for Democracy," they joined the Allied powers. The United States fought in the conflict in Europe until its end in 1918.
The Women's Peace Society was an American organization of women that promoted women's equality, nonviolence, and pacifism. It was founded by Fanny Garrison Villard, the daughter of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, when she and others decided to leave the Women's Peace Party in 1919, to focus on nonresistance and nonviolence. The founding principles of the Women's Peace Society reflected those of William Lloyd Garrison and insisted that all life at all times is sacred. The group also believed that women's equality and suffrage was tantamount with universal peace. They led disarmament parades, antiwar demonstrations, lobbied in politics, and held educational contests that promoted pacifism and total nonresistance. In 1921, a group of women, unhappy with Fanny Garrison Villard's leadership, split off and joined a different organization, the Women's Peace Union. The Women's Peace Society continued to struggle with membership retention and recruitment, and published its last piece of literature in 1933.
“Have You This Information Concerning the World War?” Leaflet Produced by Women’s Peace Society is a leaflet outlining basic facts and statistics of World War I. The pamphlet was produced by the Women's Peace Society in an effort to promote anti-war sentiment in the years after World War I. The pamphlet dates from around ten years after the United States' entrance to the war, circa 1928.