Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Emily Greene Balch


Related Topics

In the News (Mon 7 Dec 09)

  
  Person of the Week: Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch, noted sociologist, political scientist, economist and pacifist, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
Balch was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, in 1867.
Balch came to the conclusion that the Nazis were such an evil that they had to be fought by all means necessary, and she reluctantly supported the war effort.
www.wellesley.edu /Anniversary/balch.html   (424 words)

  
 Emily Greene Balch - Biography
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867-January 9, 1961) was born in Boston, the daughter of Francis V. and Ellen (Noyes) Balch.
She maintained her association with the WILPF, acting often in an honorary capacity; in 1959 she served as a co-chairman of a committee to mark the centenary of the birth of Jane Addams, a good comrade of days past and herself a winner of the Peace Prize (for 1931).
Balch, Emily Greene, ed., Occupied Haiti; being the report of a committee of six disinterested Americans representing organizations exclusively American, who, having personally studied conditions in Haiti in 1926, favor the restoration of the independence of the Negro republic.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1946/balch-bio.html   (803 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch was born in 1867 in Jamaica Plain, Mass., and educated at Bryn Mawr college and the Sorbonne in Paris.
In 1915, Greene Balch attended a conference between the Scandinavian and Russian governments in which peaceful resolutions to the Great War were discussed.
Emily Greene Balch retired in 1956 and died in 1961.
myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=emilybalch   (745 words)

  
 Papers of Emily Greene Balch, DG 006, Table of Contents, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) was one of only two American women who have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Balch's extracurricular work with the Women's Trade Union League and opposition to World War I resulted in dismissal from Wellesley, and thereafter she helped lead the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Called a "Citizen of the World," Balch worked for peace throughout her life--through disarmament; internationalization of important waterways, aviation, and the polar regions; drug control; and the elimination of the causes of discontent and conflict among peoples.
www.swarthmore.edu /Library/peace/DG001-025/DG006/DG006EGBintro.html   (1218 words)

  
 Emily Greene Balch: Nobel Peace Laureate
Emily Greene Balch, a member of the first generation of American women to attend college in significant numbers, had three ground-breaking careers: social reform, the teaching of economics at Wellesley College, and international political activity.
After working as a reformer for a few years, Balch decided she would be of greatest use to the social reform movement as a teacher who might instill the social reform drive in the growing numbers of women attending college.
In 1918, Balch was dismissed from the Wellesley faculty -- ostensibly for her long absences on behalf of the ICW, but in fact for her anti-war views.
www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/balch.html   (2641 words)

  
 Emily Greene Balch Summary
Emily Greene Balch was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on January 8, 1867.
In 1902 Balch became president of the Women's Trade Union League of Boston, which she co-founded, and sat on a state commission organized to investigate minimum wages for women.
Balch was on leave from Wellesley between 1916 and 1918.
www.bookrags.com /Emily_Greene_Balch   (1007 words)

  
 Mass Moments: Emily Greene Balch Born   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Emily Greene Balch grew up in a prosperous and well-established New England family in the years after the Civil War; she was strongly influenced by her parents' liberal Unitarian values.
Balch continued her efforts to improve conditions for the underprivileged, especially immigrants and refugees.
Balch's belief in the possibility of world peace was deeply shaken by Hitler's aggression and his treatment of the Jews.
www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=2   (1128 words)

  
 Michael Servetus Unitarian Universalist Fellowship: Emily Greene Balch
I quote from Emily Greene Balch: her acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946: “An unchallenged belief or idea is on the way to death and meaninglessness.
I chose Emily Greene Balch randomly from a list of notable Unitarian Universalists back in April or May. The more I study her life and accomplishments, the more I appreciate this tension in our world.
Balch spoke in Oslo, a large part of her message detailed her list of things that unify the world.
www.msuuf.org /Sermons/20040725sermon.html   (2442 words)

  
 Report from Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, 1915
In this official report to Jane Addams, Emily Balch described the positive reception the Women's Delegation received from the Scandinavian and Russian governments.
Balch detailed the Scandinavians' responses of the possibility of a conference of neutrals.
Balch recounted her interview with a Russian official to illustrate the difficulty of acquiring such proof.
womhist.binghamton.edu /hague/doc13.htm   (1280 words)

  
 Balch, Emily Greene - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961, American economist and sociologist, b.
She taught at Wellesley College until her dismissal (1918) for opposing U.S. involvement in World War I. Co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom with Jane Addams and its international secretary from 1919 to 1922, she shared with John R. Mott the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Balch, Emily Greene" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Balch-Em.html   (243 words)

  
 Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch was born on January 8, 1867, in Massachusetts,
Emily Greene Balch fought her way to greatness with these strong actions.
Emily Greene Balch died on January 9, 1961.
library.thinkquest.org /05aug/00160/l_emilygreenebalch.html   (166 words)

  
 Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch was born on January 8, 1867 in Boston Massachusetts.
She was a member of Henry Ford’s Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation, based at Stockholm, for which she drew up a position paper called “International Colonial Administration”, proposing a system of administration not unlike that of the mandate system later accepted by the League of Nations.
Balch campaigned actively against America's entry into the war.
www.csufresno.edu /peacegarden/nominees/balch.htm   (360 words)

  
 Emily Greene Balch
Balch (January 8, 1867-January 9, 1961) was born in Boston, the daughter of Francis V...
Balch - were co-founders in 1915 of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,...
Balch (1871-1955) American sociologist, political scientist, economist, and pacifist, a leader of the women's movement for...
www.netactics.co.uk /emily_greene_balch.html   (272 words)

  
 Emily Greene Balch Beschreibung in Library - Definition und Buch-Tipp.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Eine Übersicht der Artikel, die mit dem Thema Emily Greene Balch verwandt sind finden Sie auf der Seite alle Artikel über Emily Greene Balch.
Emily Greene Balch (*8.01 1867 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; † 9.01 1961 in Cambridge) war eine US-amerikanische Nationalökonomin, Pazifistin und Friedensnobelpreisträgerin.
Ab 1915 war Emily Balch vermehrt in der Friedensbewegung tätig.
emily_greene_balch.know-library.net   (688 words)

  
 UU World Mar/Apr 2002: Looking Back: Emily Greene Balch
When Emily Greene Balch received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 at the age of 79 — only the third woman to receive the award — many of her once-radical proposals for international conflict resolution had been adopted, but her legacy remains largely overlooked today.
Emily Greene Balch was born to a prosperous Unitarian family in 1867.
Balch advocated breaking international conflicts down into smaller negotiable disputes, encouraging "a functional internationalism in which technicians would work on specifically defined problems of common interest, like world health," writes Sam Bass Warner Jr.
www.uua.org /world/2002/02/lookingback.html   (707 words)

  
 Peace Project: Biographies of Peace Peace Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Emily Greene Balch was born in Boston on January 8, 1867.
After graduating from college, Balch became a professor of history and sociology.
Emily Greene Balch was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
www.edu.pe.ca /birchwood/peace/egb.htm   (47 words)

  
 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's pages - Emily Greene Balch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Emily Greene Balch was a colleague of Jane Addams' in the effort to stop the First World War, her partner in the work of WILPF, and successor as its leader.
Jahn was impressed with her practicality, her effort to improve international political relations by promoting international cooperation in other fields, and by her control of the facts in all her proposals.
Jahn commended Balch for her gradualism, as compared with the Utopianism of less patient peace workers.
www.dassk.org /contents.php?id=70   (351 words)

  
 Emily Greene Balch - Heroes for a Culture of Peace
Emily Greene Balch - Heroes for a Culture of Peace
Emily Greene Balch worked for many causes for a better world -- women's right to vote, racial equality and labor laws for women and children, but when World War I broke out, she became convinced that her mission in life was to work for peace.
For the next fifty years, Emily Greene Balch continued to work for a more peaceful and just world and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
www.people4peace.net /heroes/balch.htm   (368 words)

  
 [No title]
Emily Greene Balch was born in Boston in 1867.
She was dismissed from her teaching position at Wellesley in 1918, not for her pacifist views but on the grounds that her work with the ICW caused her to miss too much class time.
Balch received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946; she died in 1961.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1592   (329 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Emily Greene Balch": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
For instance, peace activists Madeline Doty, Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, and Belle LaFollette "were all underscored in red on the original chart."32 The color red was used to signify WILPF...
Emily Greene Balch received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of world peace and freedom.
hen economist and social reformer Emily Greene Balch was named cowinner of the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize in her 80th year,...
www.amazon.com /phrase/Emily-Greene-Balch   (522 words)

  
 Emily Greene Balch Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Pacifist, political activist, college professor, and social reformer, Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) dedicated her life to humanitarian causes.
In 1906 she announced her affinity for socialism and worked closely with others to advance its principles.
After Pearl Harbor in 1941, Balch advocated support for Japanese-Americans held in U.S. detention camps.
www.bookrags.com /biography/emily-greene-balch   (815 words)

  
 EMILY GREENE BALCH Articles from AMAZINES.COM - The Article Database and EZine Publishers Database
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into a well-off family, she was amongst the first graduates of Bryn Mawr College in 1889.
Her contract terminated by Wellesley because of her pacifist activities, she became an editor of The Nation, a well-known liberal news magazine, acted as secretary of the WILPF (a second term in 1934 without salary for a year and a half), did much work for the League of Nations.
www.amazines.com /Emily_Greene_Balch_related.html   (417 words)

  
 Emily Greene Balch - Wikipedia
Emily war das zweite von acht Kindern eines angesehenen Rechtsanwaltes und einer Lehrerin.
1931 wurde Emily Greene Balch Vorsitzende der amerikanischen Sektion der Frauenliga und 1934 kehrte sie auf ihren Posten in Genf zurück, da sie finanzielle Probleme hatte.
Informationen der Nobelstiftung zur Preisverleihung 1946 für Emily Greene Balch (englisch)
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emily_Greene_Balch   (669 words)

  
 Francis Balch to Emily Greene Balch, 1915
Document 4: Francis Balch to Emily Greene Balch, 7 April 1915, Papers of Emily Greene Balch, Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Scholarly Resources microfilm edition, reel 5, #1062).
Emily Greene Balch’s brother Francis wrote this letter to discourage her from attending the Women's Peace Congress.
Francis did not question Emily's commitment to peace, but he expressed concern about radicalism in the woman’s peace movement.
womhist.binghamton.edu /hague/doc4.htm   (819 words)

  
 Emily Greene Balch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
She was also noted for her sympathetic and thorough study of Slavic immigrants in the United States.
She founded a settlement house in Boston and served on the Massachusetts commissions on industrial relations (1908-09) and immigration (1913-14) and the Boston city planning board (1914-17).
A member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), Balch was a delegate to the International Congress of Women, The Hague (1915), and she helped found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, of which she was secretary-treasurer (1919-22, 1934-35).
peace.nobel.brainparad.com /emily_greene_balch.html   (253 words)

  
 Uhhp.com :: Haitian History: Occupied Haiti
This was a group of WILPF (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.) that went to Haiti to do a study.
Chapter VI: Agriculture and the Occupation by Emily G. Balch.
Chapter XIV The Press and the Prison by Grace D. Watson and Emily G. Balch.
www.uhhp.com /haiti/history/occupation/occupied_haiti.html   (1062 words)

  
 DG006EGBPh
The photographs of Emily Greene Balch, her family, friends, and colleagues in this exhibit represent only a portion of the images available in this collection.
If you would like to know more about the other photographs available in the Emily Greene Balch Papers, please contact the Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Return to the Table of Contents of the Emily Greene Balch Papers
www.swarthmore.edu /Library/peace/Exhibits/EGBphotos/dg006egbph.htm   (222 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Emily Greene Balch (Economics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Emily Greene Balch (Economics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Emily Greene Balch[bolch] Pronunciation Key, 1867–1961, American economist and sociologist, b.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Emily Greene Balch
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Balch-Em.html   (200 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.