Georgia Lloyd papers, 1915-1994 (bulk 1930-1990).

National Woman's Party

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National Woman’s Party (NWP), formerly (1913–16) Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffr...

Lloyd, Mary Maverick, 1906-1976.

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Antioch College

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Lloyd, George, 1913-1998

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Commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony no. 11 / George Lloyd. [1985]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 154208549 Composed 1981. Commissioned by the B.B.C. for the Northern Brass Ensemble.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony no. 10 : "November journeys" : impressions & relfections whilst travelling to visit some cathedrals / George Lloyd. [1981]. (Fr...

Maverick family.

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Wynner, Edith

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Lloyd, Georgia, 1913-....

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Author, peace activist, world government advocate and philanthropist Georgia Lloyd, 1913-1999, was executive secretary of the Campaign for World Government from 1943 until 1990. A descendant of two well-to-do politically and civically active families, the Lloyds of Illinois and the Mavericks of Texas, Georgia was also a proponent of civil and women's rights, labor and socialism. Over the course of her seventy year activist career she was involved with the Chicago Civil Liberties Com...

War Resisters League

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The War Resisters League (WRL) was established in 1923 through the initiative of Jessie Wallace Hughan. It began as an organization for men and women willing to sign a pledge refusing to support war of any kind. During World War II, it lent both moral and legal support to conscientious objectors, especially absolute pacifists who refused to participate even in civilian alternative service, often for reasons other than religious beliefs. In 1968, the WRL merged with the Committee for Nonviolent A...

Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948

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Schwimmer was a Jewish pacifist and writer, born in Hungary. Her application for American citizenship was denied by the Supreme Court in 1929 on the grounds of her pacifist views. Justice Holmes wrote the dissenting opinion. (United States v. Schwimmer; 49 S. Ct. 448) From the description of Correspondence between Rosika Schwimmer and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1930-1935. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235152187 Public official. From the descr...

O'Connor, Jessie Lloyd, 1904-

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Jessie Lloyd O'Connor piloting Volya , undated Jessie Lloyd, journalist and social activist, was born in Winnetka, Illinois on February 14, 1904, the daughter of William Bross Lloyd, writer and socialist, and Lola Maverick, pacifist and founder of the U.S. section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). O'Connor's grandfather was Henry Demarest Lloyd, muckraking journalist and author of Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894), an expose of Standard...

Campaign for World Government (Organization)

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Established in 1937, the Campaign for World Government would create a civil world federation open to peaceful, orderly change. From the description of Collection, 1938-1963 1938-1944. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 27057345 The Campaign for World Government was founded in 1937 in New York City by Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948) and Lola Maverick Lloyd (1875-1944). The Campaign was the pioneer organization advocating world federal government as the o...

Schwimmer, Franciska

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Socialist Party (U.S.)

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The Socialist Party (U.S.) was founded in 1901, bringing together moderate socialists from the Social Democratic Party, and dissident members of the Socialist Labor Party. In 1936 the ongoing differences between the “Old Guard” and “Militant” factions, resulted in a split, with the Militant group retaining the SP name and much of the membership, while the Old Guard faction retained most of the organizational and financial assets. From the guide to the Socialist Party (U.S.) Minutes, ...

Lloyd family.

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Chicago Civil Liberties Committee

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Green family.

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Singh, R. Lal

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Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997

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Morris Milgram was born and raised in New York, the son of Jewish parents working in the garment industry. He attended City University of New York from where he was expelled after leading a protest against a university-sponsored visit by Italian fascist students. He finished studies at Dana College (later Newark University) and started working for the Workers⁰́₉ Defense League, first as executive secretary and eventually as national secretary. In 1947 he resigned from the Workers⁰́₉ Defense Leag...

Lloyd, William Bross, 1908-

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William Bross Lloyd, Jr. (1908- ) was an American writer, editor and political activist. He worked as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1929 to 1931 and became involved in the consumer cooperative movement in Chicago and Racine, Wisconsin. From 1935 to 1938 he edited The Racine Day, then joined the staff at the Campaign for World Government. In 1943 he was assigned to a Civilian Public Service Camp as a conscientious objector to military service in World War...

O'Connor, Harvey, 1897-1987

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Harvey O'Connor was born March 29, 1897 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended high school in Tacoma, Washington. During the period from 1918-1924 Mr. O'Connor did editoral work in Seattle. From 1924-1927 he was assistant editor of Locomotive Engineers Journal in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. O'Connor was a bureau manager for Federated Press from 1927-1930. And from 1935-1937 he was managing editor of People's Press. He was also editor of Ken from 1937-1938 in Chicago. Mr. O'Connor has been active in the...

Berndt family.

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

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...

Chino, Robert Asahi.

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Kelly family.

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Lloyd, William Bross, 1875-1946.

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William Bross Lloyd, Jr. (1908-1995), writer, organizer, and political activist is the eldest child of William Bross Lloyd and Lola Maverick Lloyd. He graduated from Antioch College in 1932, worked as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (1929-1931), and became involved in the consumer cooperative movement in Chicago and Racine, Wisconsin. From 1935-1938 he edited The Racine Day, the newspaper of the Racine Trades and Labor Council of the Racine Progressive Party. He left the paper to join ...

Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944

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Lola Maverick Lloyd was a pioneer suffragist, pacifist, and friend and associate of Jane Addams with whom she founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. From the description of Collection, 1915-1944. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28329110 Lola Maverick Lloyd, pioneer suffragist and pacifist, graduated Smith College, 1897; married William Bross Lloyd, 1902 (divorced, 1916); four children: Mary, William Jr., Georgia, and Jessi...

Keep America Out of War Congress

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The Keep America Out of War Congress (KAOWC) was officially founded at a rally held on March 6, 1938, in the New York Hippodrome. The host and sponsor was the Socialist Party, and the chairman, veteran pacifist reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Speakers included Robert M. LaFollette Jr., socialist leader Norman Thomas and columnist John T. Flynn. The national platform called for withdrawal from such 'imperialist' involvement as the stationing of American ships and marines in China's...