Elizabeth Washburn Wright

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Overview

Elizabeth Washburn Wright born Minneapolis, MN November 19, 1874 (d. 1954). Internationalist; led anti-opium campaign, 1908; US delegate to Opium Convention, 1924.

Quotations

"The opium question, therefore, has in a true sense become an international one—which will result in. . . it is to be hoped, the crushing out of one of the most subtle and pernicious menaces that has ever assailed mankind." (Outlook 1904, 90:642)

Martha Coffin Wright

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Martha Coffin Wright born Boston, MA December 25, 1806 (d. 1875). Quaker abolitionist; feminist; organizer of Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, 1848; conductor on Underground Railroad; president of many women's rights conventions.

Quotations

"In union [of women] there is strength." (to Lucy Stone, Aug. 22, 1869, in Bolt, The Women's Movements, p. 122; phto wikicommons nat. park service pd)

Wu Yi-Fang

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Wu Yi-Fang born Wuchang, China January 26, 1893 (d. 1985). PhD biologist; diplomat; first female Chinese university president, 1928-52. One of four women to sign UN Charter, 1945; assisted in governmental education reforms, 1949; delegate to World Peace Congress, Finland, 1955.

Quotations

"Only as women become educated can we expect them to step into their places as leaders." (Biog. Dict. Republican China III, p. 462; photo http://bit.ly/FQ01t4)

Jindřiška Wurmová

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Jindřiška Wurmová (née Fleischer) born Rovečné, Moravia, Austro-Hungary February 8, 1864 (d. 1953). Czech pacifist feminist; author and translator; co-founder and chair Brno Chečicky Peace Society 1912-30; early follower of Nobelist Bertha von Suttner 1904; postwar membership in International Peace Council Geneva , World Women 's Union, League of Nations for Women ,WILPF; wrote a dozen works on peace, including a Peace Reader (1913); signed War Resisters League Manifesto against Conscription 1926. (photo myheritage.cz)

Addie L. Wyatt

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Addie L. Wyatt (née Cameron) born Brookhaven, MS March 8, 1924. Labor leader and civil rights advocate. Adviser to Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); helped found Operation Breadbasket, 1962. Worked with Martin Luther King, Jr; arrested for role in protests, Selma, 1965. Arrested for Apartheid protest, 1983. Shared Time magazine Person of the Year Award with Barbara Jordan, 1975.

Quotations

“If the world was going to be better, we had to make it so.” (Her mother's motto, Working Women's History Project, Dec. 14, 2002; photo AFGE)

Elizabeth Wyckoff

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Overview

Elizabeth Wyckoff born New York June 16, 1915 (d. 1994). Freedom Rider, Poet, Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr and Mt. Holyoke rode on Trailways bus Montgomery to Jackson MS where she was arrested 1961; Albany civil rights campaign 1962.

Quotations

We stagger off on our road. We are walking in sleep.
We are seeking the end of our years, the end of our terrible days.
("The Exiles," The Lantern, Bryn Mawr College, p. 6, 1935; photo harlemcore.com)

Edith Wynner

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Overview

Edith Wynner born Budapest December 22, 1915 (d. 2003). Pacifist leader, Campaign for World Government; aide to Rosika Schwimmer; author of study of international organization.

Quotations

"[Militarists] stripped by merciless satire and ridicule of their tinsel, their flag-waving, and their lip-service to the tenets of human liberty and progress, men and women everywhere will see them and their cohorts for what they are—dealers in death and destruction." (letter to Time, April 6, 1936; photo NYPL)