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Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

Anna Melissa Graves Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-015
Abstract

Anna Melissa Graves was a writer, teacher, world traveler, and internationalist. From the 1920s to the 1940s Graves traveled through Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East. She taught school in many of these places and maintained a voluminous correspondence with the teachers, acquaintances, and former students she met on her travels.

Dates: 1919-1953

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  • Subject: Women and peace X
  • Subject: Women and peace -- History -- Sources X

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Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
Internationalists -- History -- Sources 1
Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1