Constance Sporborg

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Overview

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Constance Amberg Sporborg born Cincinnati, OH July 11, 1879 (d. 1961). Jewish civic leader; internationalist; settlement worker. Secretary, Committee on Cause and Cure of War, 1929. Undertook Europe study mission, 1937; headed women’s delegation to Pan-American Conference, Lima, Peru, 1938. Consultant at UN founding San Francisco, 1945. Postwar lobbyist at UN; member of US Committee for UNESCO.

Quotations

“Only realists today are internationalists.” (Baltimore Sun, Apr. 12, 1949; photo jewish women’s archive)