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763: 211:. The United States military is currently active in Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Niger. Many antiwar and pro-peace organizations in the United States have emerged since the beginning of the United States involvement in foreign affairs, such as the Middle East. Organizations such as 174:
In the future, more and more American citizens would join such antiwar and peace movements; however the organization of the antiwar movement in 1914 was solely influenced by upper class businessmen and politicians. The emergence of World War II and the Vietnam war brought forth American citizens from
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was an organized movement that focused on demilitarization in the United States and iniquity of violence. The Women's Peace Society was an active organization for fourteen years, being founded in 1919 and evolving into a separate peace movement-Women's Peace Union of the Western Hemisphere- in 1933.
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because they found "a fundamental lack of unity in the membership as a whole and in the executive committee". The leader of the group, Fanny Garrison, Villard sought to bring importance to humanitarian issues and raise awareness for the importance of all lives after the deadly consequences of World
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in foreign countries. American men and women in the early twentieth century were some of the first small group of citizens to speak out against militarism and were often threatened their own civil liberties and freedoms by participating in such movements against the patriotic association to war in
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organizations who brought forth their concerns of the European conflict and economic causes of war. The growing involvement of women's participation in activism for peace and women's suffrage fueled both the Women's Peace Society and Women's Peace Party organizations. Both men and women united in
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work against slavery in the United States in during the mid to late nineteenth century. Fanny grew up during at the climax of her father's anti-slavery campaign. Being a child of a famous abolitionist and American journalist would influence her in her adult years to use her voice and become an
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to raise awareness about the atrocities of war and the millions of deaths that could have been avoided if the United States withdrew from foreign affairs. The women that participated in these peace groups often spoke out to the public about these issues and through city council meetings and
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in the United States was made to honor peace and the many US citizens who had died in war. Holidays to commemorate peace and fallen US military members quickly transformed into honoring the military, glorifying war, and displaying militarism.
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Benton Mackaye, writer and forestry expert of 145 West Twelfth Street, asked the police at 1 o'clock yesterday to search for his wife, Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs Mackaye, President of the Milwaukee Women's Peace Society and
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antiwar movements across the United States after its involvement in World War I. All American citizens were expected to embrace in the patriotic call to arms, but the small minority of pacifists and citizens involved in
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influential activist against many social issues such as inequalities that African American's faced in the United States. Due to Henry Villard's success with his business, the
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The Women's Peace Society's main concern was abolishing all wars and future war efforts. The Women's Peace Society fought alongside other peace organizations such as the
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in 1923 which continues to be an organization moving towards the abolishment of war after World War I and now against the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  
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organizations in the United States in the early twentieth century. Antiwar organizations such as the Women's Peace Society and the Women's Peace Party were the first
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The first antiwar movements and organizations in the early twentieth century fueled American's interest in future peace and antiwar movements. After
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congressional hearings towards an antiwar amendment. Alongside other peace organization groups, the Women's Peace Society helped create the
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the working class and lower class citizens. Increasing anger over wartime drafts, policies, and economic conditions led to a more
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The most recent antiwar movements and oppositions are against the ongoing war in Afghanistan and several other countries in the
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ended, the United States had accumulated over half a million military fatalities. After WWI and WWII, holidays such as
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Helen Frances "Fanny" Garrison Villard was most notable for founding the Women's Peace Society (1919), cofounding the
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movement in 1906 and had begun to speak at debates and legislative hearings. This led to her involvement in the
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was created on September 12, 1919, in the United States when a group of women that included
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Peace As a Women's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women's Rights
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and end to United States involvement in Afghanistan and other foreign nations.
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in 1915 during World War I, joining the Women's Peace Party under founder
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The Women's Peace Society was one among the very few first antiwar and
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view and transformed many American citizens views of war involvement.
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was president of the Milwaukee branch. She took her own life in 1921.
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and Helen Eliza (Benson) Garrison. Fanny Garrison Villard married
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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The Founder: Helen Frances "Fanny" Garrison Villard
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Index

Milwaukee Women's Peace Society
Fanny Garrison Villard
Elinor Byrns
Katherine Devereaux Blake
Caroline Lexow Babcock
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Women's Peace Union
Fellowship of Reconciliation
War Resisters League
Fanny Garrison Villard
Suffragist
Anti-war movement
Humanitarian
William Lloyd Garrison
Henry Villard
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Woman's Peace Party
Abolitionism
Edison General Electric
Philanthropy
Women's suffrage
Peace movement
Jane Addams
Pacifism
Feminism
Civil libertarianism
Militarism in the United States
Anarchism
World War I
World War II

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