International Council of Women Records 1888-1959

Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920

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Sewall was an educator, co-founder of the Girls' Classical School of Indiana, writer, lecturer, reformer, and pacifist. She was president of the National Council of Women of the United States, 1897-1899; president of the International Council of Women, 1899-1904; Chair of the Committee for Peace and Arbitration, 1904; Chair of the Executive Committee of the Women's Suffrage Association, 1882-1890; and co-founder of the Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society, 1878. For more biographical information ...

Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898

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Best known for her leadership (1879-1898) of the influential Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Willard also supported and often spearheaded a wide variety of social reforms, including woman suffrage, economic equality, and fair labor laws. Willard gained an international reputation through her speeches and publications. She was the first woman to be honored with a statue in the U.S Capitol building, and her Evanston home was one of the first house museums to in the country. ...

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935

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Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) was the leading public intellectual of the women’s movement in the early 20th century. Born into the prestigious Beecher family, she struggled through a lonely childhood and disastrous marriage, which caused a nervous breakdown. Her mental health returned once she separated from her husband; she later gave him custody of their young daughter, and he had a happy second marriage to one of her close friends. She moved to California, and threw herself int...

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International Council of Women (ICW) founded in Washington, D.C., in 1888, as an international federation of national women's organizations. Later affiliated with the United Nations with headquarters in Paris. From the description of International Council of Women records, 1931-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981886 The International Council of Women, founded in 1888, is one of the pioneer women's international organizations. From the outset its aim was to form a Nati...

Aberdeen and Temair, Ishbel Gordon, marchioness of, 1857-1939

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Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, was a Scottish patron of social and feminist political causes in Ireland and Canada. From the description of Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair collection of papers, 1899-1906. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164227 From the guide to the Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair collection of papers, 1899-1906, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg...

Salomon, Alice, 1872-1948

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Alice Salomon earned her doctor diploma (Dr. phil.) as early as 1906 with a dissertation on unequal pay for equal jobs for men and women (‘Die Ursachen der ungleichen Entlohnung von Maenner und Frauenarbeit’). She received an honorary doctorate in medicine in 1932 on occasion of her 60th birthday. At the time she was given by the Prussian government a silver medal for her services in social welfare, and the Wohlfahrtsschule Pestalozzi-Froebelhaus was renamed “Alice Salomon-Schule". ...

National Council of Women of the United States

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The National Council of Women of the United States (NCW) is an organization comprised of women's voluntary organizations with a common interest in the social, educational, and political rights of women. Its primary purpose is to act as a clearing-house or information bureau for its members in order to broaden awareness of each other's activities and to increase cooperation and reduce duplication of efforts among them. Along with its affiliate organization, the International Council of Women, the...

Stetten, Alice Mayer, 1887-1972

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Alice Mayer was born in New York City on November 19, 1882 and educated by tutors and in private schools. She married a surgeon, DeWitt Stetten, and until World War II spent summers with him in their home on the Yugoslav island of Korcul. A life-long New York City resident, she travelled extensively and was fluent in several languages. Alice Mayer Stetten served as the convener of the International Relations and Peace section of the International Council of Women, which she--along with Rose Pars...

Avery, Rachel Foster, 1858-

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Beggs, Vera W. (Vera Wadsworth), -1968

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Pacifist; Suffragist; Civic leader; International relations specialist. Vera Beggs (?-1968) worked closely with Carrie Chapman Catt from 1933 to 1938 as chairman of the Marathon Round Tables, a study and discussion project concerned with U.S. foreign policy carried on through the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War (NCCCW). Beggs chaired the NCCCW in the early 1940s and continued to be involved with its successor, the Women's Action Committee for Lasting Peace. She served as chairman...

Eder, Jeanne

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