Skip to main content

Lockwood, Belva Ann, 1830-1917

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

International Peace Bureau Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Switzerland-International Peace Bureau
Overview

Service secretariat acting as a record office, library, and agenda formulating committee for major world peace congresses; organized in 1891; founded in 1892; offices in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dates: 1889-

Belva Ann Lockwood Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-098
Overview Belva Ann McNall Lockwood (1830-1917), was the first woman attorney to practice before the Supreme Court. She personally lobbied members of Congress to pass a special act admitting women to the bar of the Court, and first practiced before the Court in 1879. Lockwood ran for the U.S. presidency in 1884 and 1888, being the first woman to have a complete, national campaign for that office. From the 1870s onward Lockwood was active with the radical peace group, the Universal Peace Union,...
Dates: 1878-1917, 1984, 1986, 1992

Universal Peace Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-038
Overview

The most colorful and important peace organization to rise from the the Civil War was the Universal Peace Union (UPU). This militant band grew out of reaction against compromising tactics which the American Peace Society adopted during the Civil War.

Dates: 1846-1938; Majority of material found within 1867-1923; Majority of material found within 1938

Additional filters:

Subject
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
Arbitration (International law) 1
Arbitration (International law) -- History -- Sources 1
Arbitration, Industrial 1
Arbitration, Industrial -- United States -- History -- Sources 1