Records, 1921-1940.

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Records, 1921-1940.

The bulk of the collection is correspondence (1921-1940) but also includes scattered minutes, resolutions, financial records, a history of the WPU, press releases, WPU literature, speeches, Congressional testimony, and clippings. Correspondents and others in the collection include: Jane Addams, Caroline Lexow Babcock, Elizabeth Black, Katherine Devereux Blake, Elinor Byrns, Lynn J. Frazier, Yella Hertzka, Lida Gustava Heymann, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Frieda L. Lazarus, Lola Maverick Lloyd, Tracy D. Mygatt, Rosika Schwimmer, Lydia G. Wentworth, Mary E. Winsor, and Frances M. Witherspoon.

11.25 linear ft.

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There are 17 Entities related to this resource.

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973

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Pacifists. From the description of Reminiscences of Frances Witherspoon and Tracy D. Mygatt : oral history, 1966. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309727510 ...

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...

Hertzka, Yella 1873-1948

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Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943

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Epithet: German emigrant in Zurich British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0000db ...

Women's Peace Union. U.S. Branch.

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The Women's Peace Union was founded in August 1921 to encourage the formation of a peace group to encompass all the women of the western hemisphere, to work for complete disarmament and the abolition of all constitutional and legal sanctions for war. Records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection are those of the United States branch. From the description of Records, 1921-1940. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 20990818 ...

Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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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...

Byrns, Elinor

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Lawyer, active in Women's Peace Society. From the description of Letter : New York, to Laurence Housman, Street, Somerset, 1938 June 21. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25286058 ...

Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947

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Lazarus, Frieda Langer

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Frieda Langer Lazarus (1896-1968) was an antiwar activist. She was a member of the Women's Peace Union and the War Resisters League. From the description of Frieda Langer Lazarus papers, 1932-1949. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164313 Frieda Langer Lazarus, born in New York to Polish parents in 1896, was an antiwar activist and advocate for conscientious objectors. In the early 1940s she was a founder of the Metropolit...

Black, Elizabeth, pacifist

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Winsor, Mary, 1869-1956

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Mary Winsor (1869, Haverford, PA-d. Sept. 10, 1956, Philadelphia, PA) was from a prominent family from Haverford. She studied at Bryn Mawr, Radcliff, and the Drexel Institute. Winsor was a militant campaigner for women's suffrage. She became president of the Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League (1910) and was also involved in the birth control movement. She was jailed several times while protesting suffrage....

Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955

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Jessie Wallace Hughan, educator, pacifist and socialist, helped to establish the Anti-Enlistment League (1915), belonged to the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and assisted in the founding of the War Resisters League, for which she worked throughout her life. From the description of Collection, 1905-1955. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28297239 ...

Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882-

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Caroline Lexow Babcock (b. Feb. 5, 1882, Nyack, NY–d. March 8, 1980, Nyack, NY). The daughter of legislator Clarence Lexow, she graduated Barnard College in 1904. She became executive secretary to Harriot Stanton Blatch at the Women's Political Union. Babcock also served as president of the College Equal Suffrage League of New York, executive secretary of the National College Equal Suffrage League, served on the executive committee and board of directors of the Birth Control Federation of Americ...

Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973

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Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858-

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B. 1858; author; advocate for pacifism, socialism, and feminism; lived most of her life in Brookline, Massachusetts; d. 1947. From the description of Papers, 1902-1947 1918-1947 (bulk). (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 20661572 ...