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Emily Greene Balch

Born: 8 January 1867, United States
Died: 9 January 1961
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA

The following is republished with permission from the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.

Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) lived here with her family in a house no longer standing. Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her indefatigable work for peace, in particular with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). She was a Socialist, and a founder of Denison House and the Women’s Trade Union League. She studied immigration and economics, teaching economics at Wellesley for 20 years until her radical peace work led to her dismissal in 1919. For the next 40 years she worked for peace all over the world, organizing WILPF activities and undertaking special missions as its delegate.

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Posted in Activism, Activism > Labor Rights, Activism > Peace, Activism > Social Reform, Economics, Sociology and tagged Nobel Prize Winner.
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