Letter from Fanny Garrison Villard to May Wright Sewall.

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Letter from Fanny Garrison Villard to May Wright Sewall.

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Title: Letter from Fanny Garrison Villard to May Wright Sewall.
Description: Letter discusses enduring struggles and national causes - anti-slavery, suffrage, etc. The pacifists were despised in Washington. President Wilson has no true moral courage else he would have prevented the war. No one has been as true to the cause of peace as yourself. Daughter of William Lloyd Garrison and wife of Henry Villard. An active supporter of women's rights and a pacifist, she founded the Women's Peace Society and helped establish the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She also served as a member of the advisory committee of the NAACP.
Correspondent: Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928
Date: 1917-04-04; 1917
Time period: 1910s (1910-1919); 20th century; World War I era;
Subject: Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920; Women's Peace Society; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Peace movements
Genre: Correspondence;
Theme: Women; Education;
Collection: May Wright Sewall Papers
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Copyright information: Copyright undetermined.
Physical repository: Indianapolis Special Collections Room, Indianapolis Public Library
Repository collection name: May Wright Sewall letters
Digital publisher: Indianapolis Marion County Public Library
Date digitized: 2005
Repository: The Indianapolis Public Library Digital Collections
Source: From: May Wright Sewall Papers
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