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Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948

 Person

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Jane Addams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-001
Overview

A world-famous social reformer; co-founded the first settlement house in America in 1889; championed many causes on behalf of the urban poor, such as protection of immigrants, child labor laws, industrial safety, juvenile courts, and recognition of labor unions; a leading figure in the movement for international peace; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

Dates: 1838-; Majority of material found within 1880-1935

Katherine Devereux Blake Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Blake, Katherine Devereux
Abstract

Katherine Devereux Blake was a suffragist and peace activist through the first half of the twentieth century. She was a member of the Ford Peace Expedition in 1915-1916, served on the national board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and its international executive board, and was the chief speaker for the Disarmament Caravan, which toured 9,000 miles in 1931.

Dates: 1911-1950

Lella Secor Florence Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-126
Abstract

Lella Secor Florence became a pacifist while serving as a journalist on the Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) and then participated in several peace organizations focused on keeping the United States out of World War I. She was active in the British section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and in the birth control movement there and wrote Birth Control on Trial.

Dates: 1915-1936

Anna Melissa Graves Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-015
Abstract

Anna Melissa Graves was a writer, teacher, world traveler, and internationalist. From the 1920s to the 1940s Graves traveled through Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East. She taught school in many of these places and maintained a voluminous correspondence with the teachers, acquaintances, and former students she met on her travels.

Dates: 1919-1953

Hannah Clothier Hull Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-016
Abstract Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College....
Dates: 1889-1958

Lola Maverick Lloyd Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Lloyd, Lola Maverick
Abstract

Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, notices, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, conference notes, and newspaper reprints. Includes information about Rosika Schwimmer and the Ford Peace Expedition.

Dates: 1915-1944

Rosika Schwimmer Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Schwimmer, Rosika
Overview

Rosika Schwimmer was a suffragist and feminist leader from Hungary who worked internationally. She founded several Hungarian societies for the advancement of trade unionism, land reform, feminism, female suffrage and pacifism and worked to promote peace during World War I. She helped to form a number of U.S. and international peace groups, including the Emergency Peace Federation, the Henry Ford Peace Expedition, and the Woman's Peace Party. She received the World Peace Prize in 1937.

Dates: 1914-1948

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-043
Abstract 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...
Dates: 1915-

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  • Subject: Women and peace -- History -- Sources X

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Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
United States 2
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Aliens -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
Children's literature -- Awards -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Feminists -- Hungary -- History -- Sources 1
Feminists -- United States 1
Internationalists -- History -- Sources 1
Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Literary prizes -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists 1
Pacifists -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- Hungary -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- United States 1
Peru -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Political refugees -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Social reformers -- United States 1
Social settlements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women -- Societies and clubs 1
Women -- Suffrage -- History -- Sources 1
Women -- United States -- Societies and clubs -- History -- Sources 1
Women and peace 1
Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women pacifists -- History -- Sources 1
Women pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women social reformers -- United States 1
Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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