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keywords: wwii, anti-war protest, peace movement, picket signs, white house, american communist party
Synopsis: Documents the anti-war movement and Communist Party activities in America in the early 1940's and formation of the American Peace Mobilization...(read more)
- Date: 1941
- Duration: 00:11:33
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
American Peace Mobilization - Neutrality Not War
Street scenes New York City 1941. Unedited footage of man handing out copies of monthly newspaper, New Masses, an American left-leaning publication. Sign on building reads "Welcome, American People's Meeting April 5-6"
NOTE:In 1940, the Committee to Defend America by Keeping Out of War sponsored an Emergency Peace Mobilization conference held in Chicago (Illinois). It was attended by over 20,000 people. Out of this conference came the APM (American Peace Mobilization), a nonprofit organization with the aim to keep America out of WW2. Over the months of its existence, the APM continued to press for nonintervention in the war, and advocated for economic liberties and well-being for all, repeal of anti-alien legislation, labor's right to organize and strike, and full civil rights for Blacks.
Shows American Peace Mobilization (APM) members carrying pickets signs in Washington DC. Shows pickets in front of the White House. The APM abruptly ended its 1,029-hour non-stop peace demonstration in front of the White House when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union (Russia). Reversing its previous position the APM now demanded immediate U.S. entry into the war. The American Peace Mobilization also changed its name to American Peoples Mobilization.
Various groups carrying anti-war picket signs and Communist banners. Banners read "New York State Committee, Communist Party", "Free Earl Browder", "Young Communist League, New York Council".
