Letter from Margaret Selenka to May Wright Sewall.
| Description: |
(Munich) Five page letter, difficult to read. Comments on League - should not contain the word peace - rather be an aggressive league against war and defensive one for justice and jurisdiction.German. A radical womens rights and peace activist. She was the initiator of the first worldwide Womens Peace Demonstration in 1899. She represented the Verband fortschrittlicher Frauenvereine (League of Progressive Womens Organizations) as a delegate to an international peace conference in Boston in October, 1904. |
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| Origin: | 1903-04-03; 1903 |
| Created By: |
Selenka, Margarethe Lenore |
| Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/mws/id/1211 |
| Collection: |
May Wright Sewall Papers |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
This item is in the public domain. |
| Subjects: |
Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920 Womens rights--Germany Pacifists--Germany Peace movements Verband Fortschrittlicher Frauenvereine |
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