Papers of Sara R. Ehrmann, 1859-1997

Pierce, Vivian.

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Ehrmann, Sara Rosenfeld, 1895-

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Civic worker, Ehrmann helped found the League of Women Voters of Brookline, MA, and was active primarily in the movement to abolish capital punishment, as well as in prison reform, and the American Jewish Committee. From the description of Papers, 1910-1969 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122470982 ...

League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Van Waters, Miriam, 1887-1974

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Miriam Van Waters, penologist, was born October 4, 1887, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, the eldest living child (an older daughter died before Miriam was born) of George Browne (1865-1934) and Maude Vosburg (1866-1948) Van Waters. She had two sisters and two brothers: Ruth Van Waters Burton (1893-1967); Rebecca Van Waters Bartholomew (1898-1974?); George, Jr. (1899-19??); and Ralph (1906-). She graduated in 1904 from St. Helen's Hall in Portland, Oregon, and then attended the Univers...

Evans, Elizabeth Glendower, 1856-1937

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Social reformer Elizabeth Glendower Evans was involved in prison reform, support of striking workers, the Massachusetts campaign for the first minimum wage act for women, the movement for women's suffrage, and peace. She was a contributing editor and financial supporter of La Follette's Magazine and the Progressive, and national director of the American Civil Liberties Union (1920-1937). From the description of Papers, 1859-1944 (inclusive), 1882-1944 (bulk). (Harvard University...

Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to New York City at the age of 12. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Frankfurter worked for Secretary of War Henry ...

League of Women Voters of Brookline (Mass.)

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Bisbee, Dorothy Winsor, 1896-

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Founder and director of Citizens for the Boston Public Schools. From the description of Papers, 1957-1976 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006847 ...

League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

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The League of Women Voters was founded in 1920 during the National American Suffrage Association convention, just months before the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote. Many founding delegates were from Massachusetts, and participated in local suffrage organizations. These suffrage groups promptly reformed as League chapters. Originally incorporated in 1893, the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association dissolved and regrouped in May 1...

Sara Emelie (Rosenfeld) Ehrmann

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Sara (Rosenfeld) Ehrmann, daughter of Abram and Helen (Uri) Rosenfeld, was born on June 14, 1895, in Bowling Green, KY. She attended East High School in Rochester, NY, and graduated from the University of Rochester in 1917 after spending her junior year (1915-1916) at Smith College. She took additional courses at Radcliffe College (1921-1922, 1940?) and Boston University (1937-1939). On May 12, 1917, she married Herbert Brutus Ehrmann. They had two children: Hilmar Bruce and Robert ...

American League to Abolish Capital Punishment

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Pierce, Vivian

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Ehrmann, Herbert B. (Herbert Brutus), 1891-

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Herbert Brutus Ehrmann, 1891-1970: Lawyer, author. Member, War Labor Policies Bd., 1918-1919; director, Industrial Relations Div. U.S. Shipping Bd., 1919. Junior counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti, 1926-1927. Pres., American Jewish Committee, 1959-1961. Author: The Untried Case (1933 and 1960); The Case That Will Not Die (1969); Under This Roof (1940); The Criminal Courts of Cleveland (1921, with Reginald Haber Smith). From the description of Papers of Herbert Brutus Ehrmann, 1906-1970 (...