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Women and peace -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 72 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

Alliance Universelle des Femmes pour la Paix par l'Éducation Collection

 Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Alliance universelle des femmes...
Scope and Contents

Includes newspaper clippings, periodicals, and the constitution of the organization.

Dates: 1896-1909
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

American Association of University Women Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Association of University Women
Dates: 1920-1942, 1970
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

American Women for Peace Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Women for Peace
Scope and Contents

Materials include releases, leaflets, and the American Women for Peace periodical Peacemaker.

Dates: 1950-1953
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Another Mother for Peace Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-102
Abstract

Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.

Dates: 1964-1978
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Hannah J. Bailey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-005
Abstract Hannah Johnston Bailey was a Quaker pacifist, suffragist, reformer,temperance leader, superintendent of the Department of Peace and Arbitration of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1887 to 1916, president and business manager of the Woman's Temperance Publication Association, the publishing arm of the WCTU, president of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association (1891-1899), and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Included in her papers is material...
Dates: 1836-1923
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

Katherine Devereux Blake Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Blake, Katherine Devereux
Abstract

Katherine Devereux Blake was a suffragist and peace activist through the first half of the twentieth century. She was a member of the Ford Peace Expedition in 1915-1916, served on the national board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and its international executive board, and was the chief speaker for the Disarmament Caravan, which toured 9,000 miles in 1931.

Dates: 1911-1950
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Elise Boulding Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Boulding, Elise
Dates: 1961-1975
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Kay Camp Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-169
Abstract Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in...
Dates: 1955-2006
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections