In 1909 Jane Addams one of the founder of WILPF (1915) was banned from speaking on Michigan Campus

The first Meeting of WILPF in the archives was February 1948

It was at the International Center opened by Mabel Mullett. 15 members were present, a group from Detroit who reported on a Inter America conference held in Guatemala August 21-27 1947. They reported on disagreement of delegates around the issue of scrapping all atomic weapons.

Ethel Hampton gave an appeal on behalf of American Overseas Aid and United Nations Appeal for Children. Which later members felt "was too patriotic and too emotional."

In the next meeting on February 24 1948, the group had a discussion on disarmament and the Marshall plan. They reported on a discouraging visit of Michigan Congress in Washington. And on a exiting luncheon with Madame Hamit Alli from India who was the representative the UN on the status of Women.

They had a sewing group which would review Emory's Reeves book: Anatomy of Peace

Members were Roberta Martin, Lois Chance, Julia Leonard, Betty Stevens, Kay Peabody, Mabel Mullett, Juanita Fitzpatrick, and they met in each other houses also, such as 1302 Henry.

1951-1952

Judith Leonard was the new president and they had 17 members, 15 attendance. They spoke of Korean peace talks, Japanese Treaty, the Mile of Pennies an fundraising project that had an actual landscape in feet from Madison to William street.

Gladys Morgan gave a report on disarmament proposal in Pthe genreal assembly in Paris and the peace proposal of President Truman and Secretary of State Atchinson. She urge members to write them and to our delegates urging them to continue patiently to come to some agreements with Ruddia on this issue.

Members were: Bernice Anderson, Susanna Mackay, Roberta Martin, Marion Cyr, Annalee Stewart, Doris Shamlefferof, Beatrice Henshaw.

In 1962

WILPF discussed in their meeting the first Arm Control Symposium in the world December 17-20 at the UM Cosponsor by the University of Michigan and the Bendix Corp.

They were very involved (1964 to 1972) in the anti Vietnam war protests. And part of the first "Teach In " against the war that happened in Ann Arbor March 24 1965

One of the first women in black:
In 1972 the newspaper report that Rebecca Shelley, a Wilpf Member from Battle Creek demonstrated the war in Vietnam in Islamabad, Pakistan in front of the American Embassy, dressed in black. She is described as " a grandmother figure who fought war for nearly 60 years." The newspaper states that: " She plans to protest in front of the Embassy until she is 86 years old for her birthday Saturday with a sign: Mourning the war dead and repenting the crimes of my people"

She was the youngest delegate at he funding of the WIL convention in 1915 in La Hague, Holland. She was of UM class of 1910. She was a poet and wrote two books: "Many voices" and "the War in Vietnam has killed the conscience of the word"