Missoula Women for Peace oral history project interviews 2000

Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973

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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. Rankin graduated from the University of Montana in 1902. She subsequently attended the New York School of Philanthropy (later the New York, then the Columbia, School of Social Work) before embarking on a care...

McGiffert, Jackie, interviewee

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Taylor, Mary, 1924, interviewee

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Brown, Claudia, 1937, interviewee

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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...

MacDonald, May, 1915, interviewee

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Chessin, Florence, 1926, interviewee

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League of Women Voters of Missoula

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The League of Women Voters in Missoula, Montana (LWVM) began in 1951. In 1952, the League of Women Voters national board recognized the league in Missoula as a local league and entitled them to the League insignia. Active founding member and local historian, Audra Browman, stated that the goal of the League of Women Voters of Missoula was to promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government. The League targeted this objective throug...

Missoula Women for Peace

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Missoula Women for Peace was founded in 1970 by a group of women, mostly mothers, who were concerned about escalating U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The group actively campaigned to end the military draft and against U.S. war policy. Missoula Women for Peace became a branch of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1981. Three years later the organization proposed a bill to the Montana State Legislature calling for a statue of Jeannette Rankin to accompany that of Charles M....

Clubb, Valerie, 1928, interviewee

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Jeannette Rankin Peace Center (Missoula, Mont.)

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Walsh, Dawn, interviewer

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Hove, Lois, 1933, interviewee

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Erickson, Nancy, 1935, interviewee

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Perrin, Sandra, interviewee

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Campbell, Alice, 1932, interviewee

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Pfeiffer, Jean, 1927, interviewee

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