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Start Over Repository Swarthmore College Peace Collection Subject Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources People Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 Year 1900 to 1949

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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.

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Lola Maverick Lloyd Collected Papers, 1915-1944 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (1 linear in.)
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Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, notices, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, conference notes, and newspaper reprints. Includes information about Rosika Schwimmer and the Ford Peace Expedition.

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Rosika Schwimmer Collected Papers, 1914-1948 (inclusive)

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
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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.

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