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Jessie Wallace Hughan (December 25, 1875 – April 10, 1955) was an American educator, a socialist activist, and a radical pacifist. During her college days she was one of four co-founders of Alpha Omicron Pi, a national fraternity for university women. She also was a founder and the first Secretary of the War Resisters League, established in 1923.
Jessie Wallace Hughan (December 25, 1875 – April 10, 1955) was an American educator, social activist, and a radical pacifist. She was one of four co-founders of Alpha Omicron Pi, a national sorority for university women; a founder and the first Secretary of the War Resisters League, established in 1923; and a perennial candidate for political ...
Matt Meyer. In her diary on October 19, 1923, the 48-year-old New York City educator Jessie Wallace Hughan (1875-1955) wrote, “Tracy [Mygatt] to dinner—had hair done—organized real War Resisters League ...”. Hughan was describing the formal founding of WRL as the successor organization to the Anti-Enlistment League, which had opposed ...
Hughan’s published writings include The Facts of Socialism (1913) and International Government (1923) as well as numerous articles, brochures, and treatises, and the 1932 volume of poems, The Challenge of Mars and Other Verses.
views 2,587,996 updated. Hughan, Jessie (1875–1955) American educator, socialist, and pacifist. Name variations: Jessie Wallace Hughan. Born Jessie Wallace Hughan, Dec 25, 1875, in Brooklyn, NY; died April 10, 1955, in New York, NY; dau. of Samuel Hughan and Margaret (West) Hughan.
Jan 23, 2023 · Jessie Wallace Hughan. Up until the first world war, peace and antiwar groups tended to be either religious (such as, AFSC and FOR) or women-only (Women’s Peace Society, Women’s Peace Union, Woman’s Peace Party, WILPF). Hughan sought to change that with the 1915 founding of the Anti-Enlistment League and its pledge to be “against ...
The War Resisters League, an American pacifist organization, was founded in 1923 by Jessie Wallace Hughan, New York City teacher and socialist. Hughan believed the League should encourage the growth of pacifism and provide a home for secular pacifists who could not fit into church‐based peace groups.
