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Peace Activism and Social Justice: The Minnesota Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1939–1940
Author(s) -
Meerse Katherine C.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/0149-0508.00101
Subject(s) - league , social justice , economic justice , work (physics) , political science , sociology , law , criminology , public administration , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , astronomy
The Minnesota branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom sponsored two volunteer work camps for college students in 1939 and 1940. This article traces the group's commitment to economic justice and racial equality as it evolved during those camp experiences. More broadly, it provides a fuller understanding of the peace movement's social justice activism in the years between two world wars.