Subject: Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 7.5 linear ft. (7.5 linear ft.)
Abstract:: 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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 12.75 linear ft. (12.75 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Dorothy Marder was a photographer and photojournalist, peace activist, Lesbian and Gay community member, counselor, and disabilities advocate. Her most extensive photographic work concerned women's peace activism (especially Women Strike for Peace), in the New York, New York area between the late 1960s through the 1980s Many of her photographs appeared in peace movement and alternative press publications. Marder photographed well-known peace activists, feminists, and political figures of the last quarter of the twentieth century including: Bella Abzug, Joan Baez, David Dellinger, Ron Dellums, Barbara Jordan, Coretta Scott King, Grace Paley, and Gloria Steinem.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Collection includes meeting notes, form letters, correspondence, flyers, publicity and media coverage, and one folder of information about Margaret Randall, feminist poet and writer.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 4.5 linear ft. (4.5 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Lydia G. Wentworth, was a writer and ardent peace advocate who lived most of her life in Brookline, Massachusetts. Despite illness which confined her to bed for over thirty years, she carried on a prolific correspondence and contributed hundreds of articles to newspapers and magazines. Wentworth was on the advisory committee of the Women's Peace Society, and was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Association to Abolish War, and the Boston League of Women Voters.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 3.75 linear ft. (3.75 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Anna Carpenter Garlin Spencer was a minister, feminist, educator, pacifist, and writer on ethics and social problems. Spencer was the first woman in Rhode Island to be ordained and served as the minister of the Bell Street Chapel from 1891 to 1902. Spencer was active in the cause of women's rights for more than forty years and served as the president of the Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association. Spencer's interest in pacifism also led her to prominent positions with the National Peace and Arbitration Congress in 1907 and she was a founding member of the Woman's Peace Party in 1915, serving as vice chairman. She also became the first chairman of the national board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919. Spencer died at her home in New York in 1931.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 130 linear ft.
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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Abstract:: 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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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