Lucy Somerville Howorth born Greenville, MS July 1, 1895 (d. 1997 age 102). "Judge Lucy", lawyer, politician, feminist; keynote speaker at White House conference on women in postwar peace 1944.
"World conditions demand even more of women today. . . Women are the natural preservers of the human race." (June 1944, in Dorothy Shawhan & Martha Swain, Lucy Howorth, p. 99, 2006; photo 1924 Miss. History Now)
Barbara Marx Hubbard born New York, NY December 22, 1929. Futurist; recipient of Peacebuilder Award, 2005; Soviet-American Citizen Summits, 1980s; 1984 vice-presidential candidate proposed White House "Peace Room". (photo barbaramarxhubbard.com.)
Jackie Hudson born Saginaw, MI November 19, 1934 (d. 2011). Dominican nun; led nonviolent protests against war and nuclear weapons for 30 years; repeatedly arrested; spent six months in prison.
"If we were ever to ban war, now is the time. Our action stems from a right and an obligation based on our belief that the U.S. government's threat to use nuclear weapons violates international law." (Works in Progress June 2003; photo Nuclear Free Future Award)
Valerie M. Hudson born Washington DC May 15, 1958. Professor of Political Science.
“[T]he promotion of gender equality goes far beyond the issue of social justice and has important consequences for international security. . . [S]ocieties that are more gender-equal are less likely to go to war, to use force first during conflicts, or to be involved in violent international crises.” (Sex and World Peace, 2012; photo vmhudson.org)
Winson Hudson (née Gates) born Harmony, MS November 17, 1916 (d. 2004). African-American pioneer of Mississippi voter registration, 1937; Freedom Summer activist, 1964.
"If I don't do it, who will?" (Elaine Woo obit., Guardian, May 1, 2004; photo lifeinlegacy)
Dolores Huerta (née Fernández) born Dawson, NM April 10, 1930. Woman leader and co-founder of nonviolent United Farm Workers, 1962. Organized successful national grape boycott; arrested 22 times. Inducted into National Women's Hall of Fame, 1993.
"I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change. . . I consider nonviolence to be a very strong spiritual force because it's a almost like an energy that goes out and it touches people." (Garcia Reader, p. 183; photo doloreshuerta.org)
Arianna Huffington (née Stassinopolous) born Athens, Greece July 15, 1950. Author and columnist opposed US intervention in Balkans, Iraq War and expansion of Afghan War.
"Just as the Athenian army was lost in the quarries of Sicily, the American army is being lost in the deserts of Iraq." (March 13, 2008)
"[The war in Afghanistan is] the gold standard of a dumb war, immoral and unnecessary." (Dec. 13, 2009; photo Wikipedia)
Jessie Wallace Hughan born Brooklyn, NY December 25, 1875 (d. 1955). Radical pacifist; socialist; founder of Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1915; Anti-Enlistment League, 1915; War Resisters League, 1923; pioneer of civilian based defense, 1937.
"A war is not like an earthquake or a tornado—it is an act of men and women. Wars will cease when men refuse to fight and women refuse to approve and allow." (Gioseffi, Women on War, p. 307; photo c. 1898 wikicommons pd)
Laura Hughes Lunde born Toronto, Ontario, Canada November 13, 1866 (d. 1966). Canadian-American pacifist; feminist; socialist; friend of Jane Addams; civic reformer. Publicly opposed World War I; attended Women's Peace Conference Hague, 1915. Co-founded Canadian Women's Peace Party (WPP), counterpart of WILPF, 1916; co-founded Canadian Labor Party, 1917; moved to US, marrying a conscientious objector, 1917.
"If this is to be the last war, as so many of us hope it will be, it is going to take every ounce of pacifist strength to make it so. The reactionary forces of the world are always stronger after a war. The militarists have more power than ever." (1916, in Barbara Roberts, Reconstructed World, 1996, p. 247, cited in wikipedia)
Hannah Clothier Hull born Wynnewood, PA July 21, 1872 (d. 1958). Quaker absolute pacifist, suffragist, national chair of WILPF 1924-39; Chair Peoples Mandate to Governments to End War 1935; delegate to League of Nations Disarmament Conference 1932.
"Peace is impossible under the present economic order. . . The economic competition of the present order is one of the direct causes of international conflict." (to Mrs. Norman Storer, Jan. 28, 1935, in Carrie Foster, The Women & The Warriors, p. 337, 1995; photo Swarthmore Peace Coll.)
Zephine Humphrey Fahnestock born Philadelphia, PA December 15, 1874 (d. 1959) Novelist; opposed World War I.
Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt born Boston, MA November 9, 1805 (d. 1875). First American female doctor; abolitionist; sponsor and speaker at Women's Rights Convention, 1840; suffragist tax refuser for 25 years.
"No taxation without representation."
Marsha Hunt born Chicago, IL October 17, 1917. Actress; internationalist; leader of UN Association; protested House Un-American Activities, 1947; blacklisted despite lack of any communist association.
"I went around the world in 1955. . . and I came back a citizen of the planet. I decided we were not just Americans, we were part of the whole. . . I looked into the U.N. and that's where the next 25 years of my life went. I decided that was may be our last best hope and gave it all the attention and time and energy I could. It was the most rewarding period for me." (San Francisco, Jan. 31, 2007; photo 1943 wiki pd)
Swanee Hunt born Dallas, TX May 1, 1950. US Ambassador to Vienna 1993; active peacemaking in Balkan war; founder Women Waging Peace 1999; founding director of Kennedy School of Women and Public Policy 1997; Women's Hall of Fame 2007.
"Real security requires more than bombs and bullets. In an increasingly dangerous world, we won't be safe until we cultivate an understanding that every person's tears are the same color (to borrow a Bosnian phrase), and every dream carries the same weight. My life, my passion, my zeal are in service to that vision." (Half-Life of a Zealot, 2006; photo jfklibrary.org)
Celia M. Hunter born Arlington, WA January 13, 1919 (d. 2001). Quaker environmentalist and conservationist; woman pilot of warplanes during World War II. Assisted with postwar rebuilding in Finnish Lapland; won highest awards of Sierra Club and Wilderness Society.
"[P]eople in the peace movement must join forces with environmental activists, and all who work for greater equality between women and men, between races, between the affluent nations and those living in poverty." (War Resisters League 1991 Peace Calendar, January 14; photo Wikipedia)
Addie Waites Hunton born Norfolk, VA June 11, 1866 (d. 1943). Black suffragist, peace activist, author, educator, organizer; organized Pan-African Congress 1927; member of mission to Haiti 1926 which influenced US military evacuation; founded Women's International Circle for Peace and Foreign Relations 1927; executive board of WILPF.
"In France, war, with its mystery of pain and suffering, was over all. Everywhere were evidence of its mutilation and destruction of life and home. Everywhere there was exhausting work and deep loneliness. . . an environment of death and desolation." (Two Colored Women with the AEF, p.141, 1920; photo flickr.com)
Carol Price Husten born Brooklyn, NY October 10, 1931 (d. 2016). Peace activist; “Bombshell Granny”; Granny Peace Brigade member arrested and acquitted for protest at Times Square recruiting office 2005; previous arrests at School of Americas and against Iraq War; arrested 2010 Grand Central Banner drop “TALK LESS; DISARM MORE"; Chair Peace Action NY State; guidance counselor.
“I love my country, but I need to exercise my opinion as part of my First Amendment right. This country has become a military industrial complex, which is exactly what President Eisenhower about as he left office, and I must sound the alarm bell.” (Joan Wile, Grandmothers Against the War, p. 79; photo legacy.com)
Perdita Huston born Portland, ME May 2, 1936 (d. 2001). Human rights advocate for women of the Third World; author and journalist. Regional Peace Corps director for Africa-Asia, 1977; Peace Corps Director, Mali, 1997-99, and Bulgaria, 1999-2000.
On El Salvador: "At a time when the UN role in peacemaking, peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance is being closely examined, let us not forget another essential task: peace management. That task is crucial to continued peace in this tiny war-shattered nation." (New York Times, Sept. 22, 1993; photo une.edu)
Grace Hutchins born Boston, MA August 19, 1885 (d. 1965). "Revolutionary" labor economist; lesbian partner of pacifist Anna Rochester; leader of nonviolent pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation 1922-6; later communist; missionary to China; arrested in Sacco-Vanzetti protest 1927.
"The generation that has experienced the horrors of war will pass, the waste of life and common wealth will be forgotten, and some new call to a great ideal will be sounded." (with Anna Rochester, Jesus Christ and the World Today, p. 142, 1922; photo Janet Lee, Comrades & Partners, 2000)
Anne Hutchinson (née Marbury), born Alford, Lincolnshire, England July 17, 1591 (d. 1643). Dissident American preacher who questioned treatment of Indians and women; tried 1637 in Boston for disturbing the peace, banished 1638.
"I have been guilty of wrong thinking." (sketch Eastchester schools)
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