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Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943

 Person

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Jane Addams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-001
Abstract

A world-famous social reformer; co-founded the first settlement house in America in 1889; championed many causes on behalf of the urban poor, such as protection of immigrants, child labor laws, industrial safety, juvenile courts, and recognition of labor unions; a leading figure in the movement for international peace; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

Dates: 1838-; Majority of material found within 1880-1935
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

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

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

Women's Peace Union: U.S. Branch Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-044
Abstract

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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Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
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Feminists 1
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Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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Pacifists -- United States 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- 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
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 Nobel Prize winners -- History -- Sources 1
Women and peace -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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