Rose Standish Nichols
Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1964) was among the first well-known women landscape architects and a lifelong pacifist
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Emily Greene Balch
Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her indefatigable work for peace, in particular with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Rose Finkelstein Norwood
Indefatigable union activist and organizer.
Alice Locke Park
Park became a key member of the influential network of socialist-feminist women in California and fought for women’s emancipation.
Mary Smeltzer
Peace activist, teacher at Manzanar, and manager of resettlement-era hostels in Chicago and New York.
Fanny Fligelman Brin
Fanny Fligelman Brin devoted her life to the causes of world peace, democracy, social justice, and Jewish welfare.
Katherine Morey
Suffragist, pacifist, leader of the National Woman’s Party in Massachusettsroughout the United States.
Sabrene Odeh
Palestinian-American activist
Aki Kurose
A teacher and activist, Aki Kurose spent her life advocating for education and social justice through pacifism. Through her beliefs in peace and nonviolence, she worked towards the betterment of her community, advocated for desegregation, and strove to improve education.
Rita Smith
Lifelong political activist in New Zealand