Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977
Person
Found in 7 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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Emily Greene Balch Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-006
Abstract
Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) was the second U.S. woman to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Balch embarked on her academic career in the economics and sociology department at Wellesley College. Balch's extracurricular work with the Women's Trade Union League and opposition to World War I resulted in dismissal from Wellesley, and thereafter she helped lead the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Called a "Citizen of the World," Balch worked for peace throughout her...
Dates:
1842-1961; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dorothy Detzer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract
Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.
Dates:
1913-1981
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dorothy H. Hutchinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-125
Abstract
Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson (l905-l984) began to gain influence in the peace movement when her pamphlet A Call to Peace Now was printed by the Friends in l943. That summer, Hutchinson and a small group of people started the Peace Now Movement, using her pamphlet to rally support for the principle of a negotiated settlement rather than unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. This group included George W. Hartmann, a psychology professor at Columbia, and John Collett. Hutchinson also worked...
Dates:
1942-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mildred Scott Olmsted Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-082
Abstract
Mildred Scott Olmsted, peace activist and suffragist, was born in Glenolden, Pennsylvania, in 1890. In 1922, Olmsted became Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). From 1934 onward she assumed national positions with the organization. In 1946, Olmsted became National Administrative Secretary and held that position (until her retirement in 1966. She remained active as Executive Director Emerita of WILPF and also served...
Dates:
1881-1990; Majority of material found within 1907-1990
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
Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-068
Abstract
This group was originally named the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women [WCOC], and then the National Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women. It was formed in 1942 to protest the Austin-Wadsworth legislative bills and similar measures, which proposed that American women be drated into a civilian workforce for the duration of World War II. When the immediate threat of drafting women had passed, the group changed its name again, this time to the Women's Committee to Oppose...
Dates:
1942-1948
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 5
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 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
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Military nursing -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs -- History -- Sources 1
- Women Nobel Prize winners -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace 1
- Women and the military -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and war -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women social reformers -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
∨ more
