L. Hollingsworth Wood papers, 1903-1953.

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...

Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981

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Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 – August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author. Baldwin was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the son of Lucy Cushing (...

Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950

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Carter Godwin Woodson, educator and historian, was considered the Father of Black History. He was born December 19, 1875, New Canton, Virginia. He was an African-American historian, author, and journalist who, in 1915, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. In 1926 he pioneered the concept of a "Negro History Week," which was later expanded into Black History Month. Woodson died at his home in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on April 3, 1950....

Fisk University

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Established as Fisk Free Colored School in Nashville, Tenn., in Dec. 1865 by John Ogden, Rev. Erastus Milo Caravath, and Rev. Edward P. Smith; named in honor of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Tennessee and Kentucky, who provided the new institution with facilities and contributed over $30,000 to the school; opened on 9 Jan. 1866 with almost two hundred students of all ages; incorporated as Fisk University on 22 Aug. 1867 after its curriculum shifted to ...

Thomas Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968

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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968), was a leading American socialist, pacifist, author, and six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, between 1928 and 1948. Born in Marion, Ohio, he was a graduate of Princeton University, attended Union Theological Seminary, where he became a socialist, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911. Thomas opposed the United States' entry into the First World War, a position that earned him the disapproval of many in his soci...

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

Baldwin, Ruth Standish.

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Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949

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Epithet: US journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x000092 Villard, a journalist and author, was president of the New York Evening Post (1897-1918), editor and owner of The Nation (1918-1932), publisher and contributing editor of The Nation (1932-1935), a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and of Yachting Magazine, and owner of the Nautical Gazette. His father ...

Douglas, J. G. (James Green), b. 1887.

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Hole, Allen David, 1866-1940

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Young Friends Board of the Five Years Meeting.

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Booker Washington Institute of Liberia

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American Union Against Militarism

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American Union Against Militarism (AUAM); founded in New York City in 1915 as the Anti-Militarism Committee; opposed militarism in World War I, defended conscientious objectors and civil liberties during the war, worked for a just and lasting peace, and opposed peacetime conscription after the war; also known at times as the Anti-Preparedness Committee, Truth About Preparedness Committee, American Union for a Democratic Peace, and the League for an American Peace; closed its offices early in 192...

Friends Ambulance Unit

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Barton, Joshua Lindley, 1849-1926.

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National urban league

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The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, later the National Urban League, resulted from the 1910 merger of three welfare organizations in New York, N.Y.: the Committee for Improving Industrial Conditions among Negroes in New York, the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, and the National League for Protection of Colored Women. From the description of Records of the National Urban League, 1910-1986 (bulk 1930-1979). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130941 ...

Emlen, John T.

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Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends : U.S.)

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Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1874-1956

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L. Hollingsworth Wood was a Quaker attorney, born at Mt. Kisco, N.Y., the son of James and Emily (Hollingsworth) Wood. His sister was Carolena Wood (1871-1936). Wood graduated from Haverford College (1896) and Columbia University Law School (1899). He worked actively in the areas of peace, civil rights, and African American and Quaker education. From the description of Prison Reform Papers, 1913-1937. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 56362168 L. Hollingsworth Wood, ...

Friends World Conference

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McKenzie, Fayette Avery, 1872-

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Professor of economics and sociology; president of Fisk University (1915-1925), helped found Society of American Indians; d. 1957. From the description of Fayette Avery McKenzie papers. Supplement, 1909-1928 (bulk, 1910-1922). (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 755934805 From the description of Fayette Avery McKenzie papers, 1915-1926. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70970123 ...

American League to Limit Armaments.

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International Rescue Committee

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Private international organization for aid to refugees. From the description of International Rescue Committee records, 1933-2009. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871906 ...

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Baker, Joseph Allen.

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Happy Grove School (Hectors River, Jamaica)

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Haverford college

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Haverford College was founded in 1833 as a Quaker school for boys. Today it is a coeducational, non-sectarian college applying the Quaker values of consensus and honor code. From the description of Archival records, 1831-[ongoing]. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 60246925 ...

New York Colored Mission

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Jones, Thomas Elsa, 1888-

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Haynes, George Edmund, 1880-1960

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First African American graduate, New York School of Social Work; first African American Ph.D. recipient, Columbia University; co-founder and first executive director of the National Urban League; organized the Department of Social Science at Fisk University; and author. From the description of George Edmund Haynes papers, 1909-1922. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70972575 Sociologist, leader in religious programs and social work education for blacks. From...

Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc.

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Peace Association of Friends in America

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Organized in 1867 in reaction to the Civil War by Orthodox Friends in the New York, Baltimore, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Western and Iowa Yearly Meetings; incorporated in 1894 in Indiana for the purpose of promoting peace; grew to include all thirteen yearly meetings of the Five Years Meeting; headquartered in Richmond, Indiana; governed by a seven-man Board of Directors elected by representatives of each of the thirteen yearly meetings; among the leaders of the Peace Association were Danie...

Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948

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American educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Seattle, to Edward Wagenknecht, [no year] Jan. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864395 Epithet: Professor of Philosophy Haverford College USA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0002fb Jones was a Quaker historian, theologian and philosopher. He taught at Haverford College, 1893-1934. From the descrip...

American commission on conditions in Ireland

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