Records, 1920-1999.

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Records, 1920-1999.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46728221

Includes minutes, resolutions and general historical records; anniversary celebrations, committee minutes, literature and releases; office files from the legislative office, the finance and the executive director; includes miscellaneous records from branches, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, among others; a large correspondence file includes general office correspondence as well as that of the National Organizational Secretary, the Washington Legislative Secretary, and others; also contains approximately 2150 photographs and/or negatives, periodicals, posters, banners, scrapbooks, postcards, graphics, audiovisual material, campaign buttons, lapel ribbons and pins, bumperstickers and other stickers, and other memorabilia.

238 linear ft.

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7569377

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920

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Sewall was an educator, co-founder of the Girls' Classical School of Indiana, writer, lecturer, reformer, and pacifist. She was president of the National Council of Women of the United States, 1897-1899; president of the International Council of Women, 1899-1904; Chair of the Committee for Peace and Arbitration, 1904; Chair of the Executive Committee of the Women's Suffrage Association, 1882-1890; and co-founder of the Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society, 1878. For more biographical information ...

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...

Steffens, Dorothy R.

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Wales, Julia Grace, 1881-

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Ivey, Anne,

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Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928

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Social investigator, peace worker, and feminist, Crystal Eastman was the daughter of Samuel Elijah and Annis Bertha (Ford) Eastman, both ordained Congregational ministers. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Papers, 1889-1931 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008284 For biographical information re: Crystal Eastman and her mother Annis (Ford) Eastman, see Notable American Wome...

Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936

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Pacifist and suffragist, Mead devoted much of her life to social reform. She served as president of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association (1903-1909) and supported many other organizations, including the Women's Municipal League, the Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston), the Consumers' League, the NAACP, and the American Civil Liberties Union. She was also vice president of the National Council for the Prevention of War, a director of the American Peace Society, and secretary...

Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958

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Absolute pacifist, suffrage leader, and policymaker and national officer of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. From the description of Papers, 1889-1958. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 19278176 ...

Gale, Zona, 1874-1938

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Zona Gale was a prominent writer and political activist born in Portage, Wisconsin. Gale attended the University of Wisconsin and worked as a reporter in Milwaukee. Gale, a lifelong friend of Jane Addams, became involved in the fight for the women's vote and eventually went to work for the writer Edmund Clarence Stedman. Her novel, "Miss Lulu Bett" was successfully adapted for the theater. From the description of Correspondence, 1907-1929. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat reco...

Moore, Carol V.,

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section

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The United States Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) was established in January 1920, replacing the Woman's Peace Party as the official arm of the WILPF in the United States; its aim was to "promote methods for the attainment of that peace between nations which is based on justice and good will and to cooperate with women from other countries who are working for the same ends." From the description of Records, 1920-1999. (Swarthmore College, Pea...

Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961

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Pacifist and worker for social reform, Balch was involved in many humanitarian and civic organizations, including the Boston Women's Trade Union League and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. From the description of Papers, 1915-1947 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007140 Peace leader. President of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section (1928-1933). Received Nobel Peace Prize (1946). ...

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...

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947

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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, suffragist, early feminist, political activist, and Iowa State alumna (1880), was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin to Maria Clinton and Lucius Lane. At the close of the Civil War, the Lanes moved to a farm near Charles City, Iowa where they remained throughout their lives. Carrie entered Iowa State College in 1877 completing her work in three years. She graduated at the top of her class and while in Ames established military drills for women, became the first...

Camp, Kay

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Katherine Lindsley Camp, born 1918, Mt. Kisco NY; graduate of Swarthmore College (1940); elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980; founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccesful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; member of the Society of Friends. ...

Mueller, Melva,

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Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947

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Fowler, Eleanor

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Samuel, Pat,

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Warbasse, Agnes D. (Agnes Dyer), 1877-1945

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Midgley, Jane

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Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975

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Journalist, biographer of Fritz Kreisler. From the description of Louis Lochner papers, 1914-1958. 1914-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 658833559 From the description of Louis Lochner papers, 1914-1958. 1914-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984260 ...

Frank, Libby

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Libby Frank (b. 1927, McKeesport, Pa.) and Morton Frank; activists for peace, peace education for children, and social justice. Libby Frank was director of the Peace Center of Bergen County (N.J.) (1969-1974), and a long-time member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, serving as Executive Director of the U.S. Section, 1981-1986; Morton Frank was director of the Computer-Based Peace Information Project. From the description of Libby Frank and Morton Frank collec...

Spencer, Anna Garlin, 1851-1931

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Anna Carpenter Garlin, b. 1851 in Attleboro, Mass.; minister, feminist, educator, pacifist, and writer on ethics and social problems; m. William H. Spencer, a Unitarian minister, in 1878; held a series of teaching posts as such institutions as the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago, and Teacher's College, Columbia University, teaching about issues of religion, aspects of marriage and the family, the role of women, sexuality, and philanthropy; d. in New York, 1931. Fro...

Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984

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Pacifist, participant in World War I peace movement and later peace activities, member of Fellowship of Reconciliation, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Women Strike for Peace. From the description of Rebecca Shelley oral history collection, 1974-1980. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 84278136 From the description of Rebecca Shelley papers, 1890-1984. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422002 Rebecca Shelley (sometime...

Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947

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