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Article: Racial justice and WILPF.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)

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March 22, 2004
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In 1919, Mary Church Terrell, founder of the National Association of Colored Women (a prominent black women's organization) was one of the U.S. Section Delegates to the second International WILPF Congress held in Zurich, Switzerland.

Terrell gave the U.S. Section address to the International Congress, saying that she was speaking on behalf of the dark races who were not present.

Yet there may have been more black women active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) during those early years (1915-1935) than currently. During those first years, WILPF's focus was not just on war and disarmament and gender issues, but also on ...

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