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Dorothy Detzer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract
Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.
Dates:
1913-1981
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A. Ruth Fry Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-046
Overview
[Anna] Ruth Fry was an activist and a writer born into a prominent Quaker family in England. From 1914-1924, she served as general secretary of the Friends Relief Commission, which provided help for refugees and others ravaged by World War I. Fry wrote about her experiences in A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was also the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. Fry went on to write numerous books, pamphlets and tracts, on a variety of Quaker and peace topics. She died on...
Dates:
1905-1957
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Beaton, Grace M. 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Buell, Raymond Leslie, 1896-1946 1
- Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 1
- Denny, Ludwell, 1894-1970 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 1
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- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
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- Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969 1
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