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Rosika Schwimmer Collected Papers
Rosika Schwimmer was a suffragist and feminist leader from Hungary who worked internationally. She founded several Hungarian societies for the advancement of trade unionism, land reform, feminism, female suffrage and pacifism and worked to promote peace during World War I. She helped to form a number of U.S. and international peace groups, including the Emergency Peace Federation, the Henry Ford Peace Expedition, and the Woman's Peace Party. She received the World Peace Prize in 1937.
Rebecca Shelley Collected Papers
Anna Louise Strong Collected Papers
The Reminiscences of Frances Witherspoon and Tracy D. Mygatt
Caroline Foulke Urie Collected Papers
Manuscript essay "Jane Addams' Personality," and letters from Jane Addams.
James Warbasse and Agnes Dyer Warbasse Collected Papers
James Warbasse was a Brooklyn physician and socialist who, with his wife, Agnes Dyer Warbasse, was interested in labor, social conditions, and cooperative movements.
Ada Wardlaw Collected Papers
Cora Weiss Papers
Mary Winsor Collected Papers
Alice Wiser Papers
Alice Wiser was a Quaker and had trained as a social worker and psychological counselor. She dedicated the last ten to fifteen years of her life to both peace and women's rights. Wiser was instrumental in organizing the peace tent for the second United Nations Conference on Women held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985. After the conference Wiser continued to organize around these issues, traveling around the world to interview women and talk about peace. Wiser died from breast cancer in 1995.