Papers, 1923-1926 (inclusive).

Matthews, Burnita Shelton, 1894-1988

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Burnita Shelton Matthews (December 28, 1894 – April 25, 1988) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was the first woman appointed to serve on a United States District Court. Matthews was born Burnita Shelton in Burnell, (an unincorporated community in Claiborne County), Mississippi, on December 28, 1894. Her father was a planter and chancery court judge. She had a brother, John L. Shelton. After attending local schools, sh...

Sherwin, Belle, 1868-1955

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Belle Sherwin was born on March 20, 1868 in Cleveland, Ohio. She was the oldest of three daughters of Frances M. (Smith) and Henry Alden Sherwin, a founder of the Sherwin-Williams Paint Company. BS received her primary education in Cleveland, attended St. Margaret's School in Connecticut and graduated from Wellesley College in 1890. She taught history for a short period at St. Margaret's and in 1894-1895 did graduate work at Oxford University. For the next several years she taught ...

Van Kleeck, Mary, 1883-1972

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Mary Abby Van Kleeck was born on June 26, 1883, in Glenham, New York, to Eliza Mayer and Episcopalian minister Robert Boyd Van Kleeck. (Mary van Kleeck changed the capitalization of her last name in the 1920s.) Following her father''s death in 1892, her family moved to Flushing, New York, where she attended Flushing High School. She earned an A.B. from Smith College in 1904. In the fall of 1905 she began working as a fellow for the College Settlement Association on New York''s Lower East Side, w...

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...

Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935

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Morgan, Ruth A.

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King, Clyde L. (Clyde Lyndon), 1879-1937

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Philadelphia Social Science Association

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Ernest Minor Patterson, President, American Academy of Political and Social Science. From the description of Letter, 1937, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155878300 The American Academy of Political and Social Science was organized in 1869. From the description of Subscription book, 1891-1911. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63615256 ...

Rowe, Leo S., 1871-

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Read, Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Fisher)

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Patterson, Ernest Minor, 1879-1969

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Epithet: President of the American Academy of Political and Social Science British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x000113 ...

Pinchot, Cornelia Bryce, 1881-1960

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Politician, political activist, and wife of Gifford Pinchot, conservationist and governor of Pennsylvania. Born Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce. From the description of Cornelia Bryce Pinchot papers, 1899-1960 (bulk 1918-1947). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981918 In 1923 Pinchot proposed a conference on "Civil Disabilities of Women" to be sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science, to debate the Equal Rights Amendment. From the description of ...