Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948
Person
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Helene Stöcker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-035
Overview
Dr. Helene Stöcker (1869-1943) was one of the first woman students to enter a German University. In the 1920s she helped found Germany's first woman suffrage organization, and later the Bund für Mutterschutz (Protection of Motherhood). Dr. Stöcker immigrated to the United States in 1941 under the sponsorship of friends and colleagues in the peace movement.
Dates:
1897-1994; Majority of material found within 1913-1943
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's Peace Union: U.S. Branch Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-044
Overview
The Women's Peace Union was founded in August 1921 to encourage the formation of a peace group to encompass all the women of the western hemisphere, to work for complete disarmament and the abolition of all constitutional and legal sanctions for war. Records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection are those of the United States branch.
Dates:
1921-1940
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 8
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
- Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists 2
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- United States 2
- Women and peace 2
- Aliens -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
- Children's literature -- Awards -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists 1
- Feminists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists -- Hungary -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists -- United States 1
- Germany 1
- Internationalists -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lawyers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Literary prizes -- History -- Sources 1
- Mediation, International -- History -- Sources 1
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Hungary -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States 1
- Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 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
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Students -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Suffragists 1
- Suffragists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
- Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women -- Political activity 1
- Women -- Political activity -- Germany -- 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 -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 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 1
- Women social reformers -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
- Women social reformers -- United States 1
- Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Congresses -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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