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Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Devere Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract

Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.

Dates: 1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955

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

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  • Subject: Peace -- History -- Sources X
  • Subject: Peace -- History -- Sources X

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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1