Du Bois, John T. McManus, Paul Robeson, C. B. Baldwin, Albert E. Kahn, Johannes Steel, Gene Weltfish, Leon Strauss, Elizabeth Moos, Kyrle Elkin, Abbot Simon and Shirley Graham.
Du Bois, a staunch opponent of nuclear weapons, was chairman of the Peace Information Center.
[2] The primary purpose of the appeal was to gather signatures on a petition, asking world governments to ban all nuclear weapons.
[3] The PIC issued a publication called Peacegram that reported on international developments related to peace.
[11] In early 1951, following the dissolution of the PIC, DuBois and others established the American Peace Crusade.