Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
Person
Found in 3 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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Overview
Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937), and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936), were both leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers of the U.S. and international peace movement. Edwin Mead directed the work of the World Peace Foundation and participated in many international peace congresses. He was an American delegate to the International Peace Bureau. Mead helped found the School Peace League and was a prominent member of the American Peace League. Lucia Ames Mead was a leading member of many feminist...
Dates:
1876-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Filtered By
- Subject: Peace -- History -- Sources X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists -- United States 1
- Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Social reformers -- United States 1
- Social settlements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women social reformers -- United States 1
- Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
∨ more
