Johnson, Grace Allen Fitch, 1871-1952

Dates:
Birth 1871
Death 1952
Birth 1871
Gender:
Female
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

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.

From the guide to the Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1840-1952, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)

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Subjects:

  • 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
  • Women
  • Women
  • Women
  • Women and peace
  • Women industrial engineers
  • Women jurors
  • Work and family
  • Women
  • Women

Occupations:

  • Suffragists

Places:

  • IN, US
  • Boston (Mass.) (as recorded)
  • Cambridge (Mass.) (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts. Department of Education. Division of Continuing Education (as recorded)
  • United States-Politics and government (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Manchuria (China) (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Boston, (Mass.)-Politics and government (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts-Politics and government (as recorded)
  • Cambridge (Mass.)-Politics and government (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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