Papers, 1937-1975 (inclusive).

Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)

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The Fellowship of Reconciliation was established in December of 1914, during a meeting at Cambridge, England. Its members believed that Christians were forbidden to wage war, and that instead they should work positively to establish a new world order of peace and justice. The F.O.R. had its office in London. It produced and distributed literature, including its monthly magazine Reconciliation; worked with youth; fostered groups of members throughout the country; and supported the work of the Int...

Hughes, Everett C. (Everett Cherrington), 1897-1983

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Everett C. Hughes was born in 1897 in Beaver, Ohio. He received his A.B. at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1918 and continued with his education at the University of Chicago, earning a doctorate in both sociology and anthropology in 1928. He married Helen Gregory MacGill in 1927, and they had two daughters, Helen Cherrington Brock and Elizabeth Gregory Schneewind. From 1927-1938, Hughes was a professor at McGill University in Canada. He wrote extensively on Canada, particularly French Canadian s...

Chomsky, Noam, 1928-

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Avram Noam Chomsky (1928- ) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, author, lecturer and political activist. Beginning with his opposition to the Vietnam War, he established himself as a prominent critic of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Chomsky has become a profoundly influential voice on the left, lecturing widely and publishing numerous books on foreign policy, Mideast politics and related subjects. His self-professed commitment to freedom has ...

Luscomb, Florence, 1887-1985

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Florence Hope Luscomb, social and political activist, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on February 6, 1887, the daughter of Otis and Hannah Skinner (Knox) Luscomb. With an S.B. in architecture (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1909), she worked as an architect until 1917, when she became executive secretary for the Boston Equal Suffrage Association. She held positions in the Massachusetts Civic League and other organizations and agencies until 1933, when she became a full-ti...

Hinton, Carmelita Chase, 1890-1983

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Carmelita Hinton founded the Putney School, which Peter Brooks (Van Wyck's grandson) attended. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1954-1956. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 180989383 ...

Herz, Helga Alice.

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Lamb, Robert Keen, 1905-1952.

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Boyden family.

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995

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John Reed (1887-1920) was an American journalist and revolutionary. He graduated from Harvard College in 1910, joined the staff of The Masses in 1913, was a war correspondent in Mexico and Europe for Metropolitan Magazine, publicist for the Russian Revolution, and head of the American Communist Labor Party. From the guide to the Corliss Lamont papers concerning John Reed, 1910-1967., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Reed (1887-1920) was an Amer...

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...

Cleveland, Francis G. (Francis Grover), 1903-

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Born on March 18, 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey, Grover Cleveland was the twenty-second (1885-1889) and twenty-fourth (1893-1897) President of the United States, the only president to leave the White House and return for a second term. In June 1886, Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom, making him, too, the only president to marry while serving in the White House. He died in Princeton, New Jersey on June 24, 1908. While in office, Grover Cleveland vigorously pursued a policy that would prevent...

Winter, Ella, 1898-1980

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Writer. Ella Winter (1898-1980) whose full name was Leonore Sophie Winter Steffens Stewart, was an economist by training and journalist by profession. She was married to Lincoln Steffens, and after his death, to screenwriter and playwright Donald Ogden Stewart. From the description of Papers, 1913-1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122622286 ...

Olds, Elizabeth, 1896-1991

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Painter, printmaker and illustrator; New York City and Sarasota, Florida. Died 1991. From the description of Elizabeth Olds papers, 1917-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515336 Children's literature illustrator. From the description of Elizabeth Olds papers, 1945-1963. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 41444099 Elizabeth Olds was born on December 10, 1896 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She studied at the Univer...

James, Alice Runnells, d. 1957.

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Smith, Jessica, 1895-1983

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Society of Friends relief worker in Russia, 1923. From the description of Jessica Smith reports, 1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867413 Biographical/Historical Note Society of Friends relief worker in Russia, 1923. From the guide to the Jessica Smith reports, 1923, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Gage-Colby, Ruth

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Ruth Gage-Colby (1899-1984) was active in the world peace movement for seventy years. She was active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, worked as a journalist covering the United Nations, and attended the Japanese Conferences Against A and H Bombs. From the description of Collection, 1951-1985. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 27964008 Ruth Gage was born in Olivia, Minnesota on February 1, 1899, the first of two...

Sweezy, Paul M. (Paul Marlor), 1910-2004

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Sweezy (Harvard College Class of 1931) earned his Harvard in 1932 and his PhD in 1937. From the description of Examinations in economics and government, May 1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075997 ...

Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989

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Orientalist, author, educator, and historian; died 1989. From the description of Owen Lattimore papers, 1907-1997 (bulk 1950-1989). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983405 Biographical Note 1900, July 29 Born, Washington, D.C. 1913 1914 Atten...

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

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Russell was an English logician and philosopher. Marsh edited Russell's Logic and knowledge: essays 1901-1950 and wrote about Russell. From the guide to the Letters to Robert C. (Robert Charles) Marsh, 1950-1959., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Russell, British philosopher and mathematician and the 3rd Earl Russell. From the description of [Letter, 19]44 Dec. 8, Trinity College, Cambridge [to] Dear Sir / Bertrand Russell. (Smith C...

Women Strike for Peace

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Women Strike for Peace began in 1961 as a one-day protest against nuclear weapons, led by Dagmar Wilson, in Washington, DC; a nation-wide grass-roots organization most active during the Vietnamese Conflict, when it operated draft counseling and amnesty programs, and lobbied against the continuation of the war; has local chapters throughout the U.S.; national headquarters are in Philadelphia, PA; legislative office and National Information Clearing House are in Washington DC; also known as WISP (...

Boyden, Elizabeth Clark

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Strong, Anna Louise, 1885-1970

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Epithet: US author and socialist in Moscow British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x0003de Anna Louise Strong was born in Nebraska and educated at Oberlin and the University of Chicago. Later moving to Seattle, she was the editor of the Seattle Union Record. She travelled extensively to Russia and China, and she wrote accounts of those journeys. In 1921 she travelled to famine-struck areas in Russia as part of ...

Davis, Jerome, 1891-1979

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Clergyman, college professor, lecturer interested in social reform. From the description of Papers, 1912-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155522391 Jerome Davis was an American professor of Sociology at Yale University. From the description of Jerome Davis fonds. [1935]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 667848429 Jerome Davis (1891-1979) was born in Kyoto, Japan to Jerome Dean Davis and Frances Hooper Davis, both m...

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978

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American anthropologist. From the description of Letter 1968 June 12. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38156541 Anthropologist. From the description of Collection re Margaret Mead, 1978-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131863 Anthropologist, author, and educator. From the description of Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996 (bulk 1911-1978). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068917 M...

Durr, Virginia Foster

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Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999) was a civil rights activist and a friend of Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. She was a relief worker during the Great Depression, worked as a lobbyist and campaign worker for Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace in the 1940s, ran as a candidate for governor of Virginia in 1948, and worked as a civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s. From the description of Durr, Virginia Foster, 1903-1999 (U.S. National Archiv...

Lamb, Helen Boyden

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Helen Boyden Lamb Lamont (1906-1975), an economist (Radcliffe, A.B., 1928, Ph.D, 1943), was a research analyst for the Foreign Economic Administration of the US government and for the Center for International Studies at MIT, where she studied India's economy. Later in life she was active in civil liberties work and a leader of the anti-Vietnam War protest, as a result of which she was included on President Nixon's Enemies List of 1973. Born Helen Elizabeth Boyden, she married Robert Keen Lamb (1...

Arnett, Katherine M.

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Olmsted, Mildred Scott, 1890-1990

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