Erna Prather Harris collection 1995

Harris, Erna Prather, 1908-1995.

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Erna Prather Harris was born June 29, 1908 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. In 1936, she became one of the first African American women to earn a degree in journalism from Wichita State University. After graduation, unable to find employment due to the Depression, Harris began her own paper, The Kansas Journal ; her stand against conscription forced the paper to close in 1939. Harris moved to Los Angles in 1941, where she worked for eight years at the Los Angeles Tribune . She later briefly...

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace; the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919. The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman's Peace Party in the United States, in January 1915, this group later became the US section of WILPF. Along with Jane Addams, Marian Cripps and Margaret E. Dungan were also foundi...

Wichita state university

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