Johnson, Grace Allen Fitch, 1871-1952
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Johnson, Grace Allen Fitch, 1871-1952
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Grace Allen Fitch
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1871-1952
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Grace Allen Johnson, educator, suffragist, civic reformer, internationalist, and lecturer, was born on September 29, 1871, in Maples, Ind., the fourth of the five daughters of Elizabeth Harriet (Bennett) and Appleton Howe Fitch, both from New England. Among her sisters was the well-known children's author and illustrator Lucy (Fitch) Perkins. The family lived in Indiana and Michigan, settling for a time in Kalamazoo; they returned to Hopkinton, Mass. (ancestral home of the Howe and Fitch families), when Grace was fourteen. She attended public school, graduating in 1890.
Politically liberal, Johnson was an activist for woman suffrage, for United States participation in the League of Nations (and later the United Nations) and World Court, and for various civic reforms (e.g., initiative and referendum, proportional representation). She defined herself as an educator, lecturing and writing on a wide range of topics including suffrage, the status of women, prohibition, aspects of democracy and government structure, international cooperation, and public speaking techniques. Her husband, a civil engineer, shared her political beliefs; he published numerous pamphlets on political reform.
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Adult education
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Civic improvement
Civic leaders
Civics
Disarmament
Forums (Discussion and debate)
Home economics
Industrial engineers
International courts
International relations
Lectures and lecturing
Militarism
Peace
Progressivism (United States politics)
Prohibition
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Women
Women
Women and peace
Women industrial engineers
Women jurors
Work and family
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Americans
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Suffragists
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Indiana
IN, US
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Cambridge (Mass.)
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