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Start Over Creator Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 Year 1950 to 1999

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Anna Melissa Graves Papers, 1919-1953 (inclusive)

Extent:
8.5 linear ft. (8.5 linear ft.)
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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Helene Stöcker Papers, 1897-1994 (inclusive) 1913-1943 (bulk)

Extent:
4 linear ft. (4 linear ft.)
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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]