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Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947

 Person

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Jane Addams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-001
Overview

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

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

Carrie Chapman Catt papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M15
Overview Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was an internationally recognized suffragist, and political activist. In 1900 Catt succeeded Susan B. Anthony as President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and remained in the position for four years. Catt founded the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1902 and served as its president for many years. During the 1930’s and 1940’s she was active in working against the Nazis, particularly their persecution of Jews. The Carrie...
Dates: 1840 - 1947

Children's Peace Petition Committee Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Children's Peace Petition Committee

Committee on Militarism in Education Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-009
Abstract Includes minutes of the executive committee, annual reports, correspondence (1925-1940), financial records, form letters, articles and manuscripts, pamphlets, CME periodicals and other publications, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Subject files provide state-by-state coverage of the U.S. Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), Citizens Military Training Corps (CMTC) and Civilian Conservation Corps, and congressional anti-conscription campaigns. Correspondents include Devere Allen,...
Dates: 1925-1940

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

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

League of Nations Association Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-League of Nations Association
Overview

The American Association for International Cooperation and the League of Nations Non-Partisan Committee merged on January 10, 1923 to become the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. This name was shortened in 1929 to become the League of Nations Association. The organization was inactive during WWII. After the war, it was revived as the United Nations Association.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1916, 1922-1945

Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Overview Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937), and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936), were both leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers of the U.S. and international peace movement. Edwin Mead directed the work of the World Peace Foundation and participated in many international peace congresses. He was an American delegate to the International Peace Bureau. Mead helped found the School Peace League and was a prominent member of the American Peace League. Lucia Ames Mead was a leading member of many feminist...
Dates: 1876-1938

National Council for Prevention of War Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-023
Abstract

The National Council for Prevention of War (NCPW) was directed by J. Frederick Libby for many years; it lobbied Congress and created educational peace material, among other activities and campaigns.

Dates: 1921-1975

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Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
Children and peace -- History -- Sources 1
Children's literature -- Awards -- History -- Sources 1
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Draft 1
Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
Feminists 1
Feminists -- United States 1
Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Hell and the way out 1
International organization -- History -- Sources 1
Internationalists -- History -- Sources 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
Literary prizes -- History -- Sources 1
Militarism 1
Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Military education 1
Military education -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Militia 1
Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- United States 1
Peace -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peru -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Political refugees -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Social reformers -- United States 1
Social settlements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Suffragists -- United States 1
Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Militia -- History -- Sources 1
Women -- Political activity -- United States 1
Women -- Societies and clubs 1
Women -- Suffrage -- History -- Sources 1
Women -- Suffrage -- United States 1
Women -- United States -- Societies and clubs -- History -- Sources 1
Women pacifists -- History -- Sources 1
Women pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women social reformers -- United States 1
Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 1
World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
Young democracy (Periodical) 1
Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1
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