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Revision as of 19:37, 29 July 2009
The Women's Peace Society was created on September 12, 1919, when a group of women that included Fanny Garrison Villard, Elinor Byrns, Katherine Devereaux Blake, and Caroline Lexow Babcock resigned from the executive committee of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom because they found "a fundamental lack of unity in the membership as a whole and in the executive committee".[1]
Members
- Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye, president of the Milwaukee branch. She took her own life in 1921.[2][3]
- Fanny Garrison Villard (1844-1928) was a women's suffrage campaigner and a co-founder of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She was the daughter of prominent publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Her husband was the publisher and railroad tycoon Henry Villard. Her son, Oswald Villard, was a prominent pacifist and civil rights activist.[1]
Archive
- Milwaukee Women's Peace Society archive at Swarthmore
References
- ^ a b "Women's Peace Society". Swarthmore. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ "Mrs. MacKaye Gone. Threatened Suicide. Suffragist and Peace Advocate Eludes Husband and Nurse in Grand Central Throng. Was About To Board Train. Writer Believes His Wife, Suffering From Overwork, WillBe Found in Some Hospital". New York Times. April 19, 1921. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
Benton Mackaye, writer and forestry expert of 145 West Twelfth Street, asked the police at 1 o'clock yesterday to search for his wife, Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs Mackaye, President of the Milwaukee Women's Peace Society and ...
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "Find Body Of Jessie Mackaye In East River". Chicago Tribune. April 20, 1921. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
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