Women's Peace Society
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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".
Fanny Garrison Villard
300px|thumb|Fanny Garrison Villard at the International Woman Suffrage Congress, Budapest, 1913.Helen Frances “Fanny” Garrison Villard was a women's suffrage campaigner and a co-founder of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
, Elinor Byrns, Katherine Devereaux Blake, and Caroline Lexow Babcock resigned from the executive committee of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was established in the United States in January 1915 as the Woman's Peace Party...
because they found "a fundamental lack of unity in the membership as a whole and in the executive committee".
Members
- Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKayeJessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKayeJessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye was president of the Milwaukee Women's Peace Society.-Biography:She attended Columbia University and was the legislative chair of the Women's Peace Society in New York City...
, president of the Milwaukee branch. She took her own life in 1921. - Fanny Garrison VillardFanny Garrison Villard300px|thumb|Fanny Garrison Villard at the International Woman Suffrage Congress, Budapest, 1913.Helen Frances “Fanny” Garrison Villard was a women's suffrage campaigner and a co-founder of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
(1844-1928) was a women's suffrage campaigner and a co-founder of National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleNational Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleThe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to...
. She was the daughter of prominent publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd GarrisonWilliam Lloyd GarrisonWilliam Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United...
. Her husband was the publisher and railroad tycoon Henry VillardHenry VillardHenry Villard was an American journalist and financier who was an early president of the Northern Pacific Railway....
. Her son, Oswald Villard, was a prominent pacifist and civil rights activist.
Archive
- Milwaukee Women's Peace Society archive at Swarthmore