Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mercedes M. Randall Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-110
Abstract
Mercedes M. Randall was an early, and lifelong, member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She held many positions of responsibility in the organization, including chairmanship of the National Education Committee, and presidency of the Manhattan Branch. Randall was the first biographer of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Emily Greene Balch.
Dates:
1914-1977
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Helene Stöcker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-035
Abstract
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
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- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists 1
- Feminists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
- Germany 1
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Sources 1
- International cooperation -- History -- Sources 1
- Internationalism -- History -- Sources 1
- Jewish refugees -- History -- Sources 1
- Jews -- Europe -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists 1
- Pacifists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Political refugees -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- United States -- 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 -- Suffrage -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace 1
- Women and peace -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Women social reformers 1
- Women social reformers -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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