Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961)

1. Emily Greene Balch

(1867 – 1961)
A fighter for peace and freedom.

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Education
In 1889 Emily Greene graduated from Bryn Mawr College.
She studied at Harvard University. Completed her education in 1896 at
the University of Berlin.
She also studied at the Sorbonne (Paris), where she presented a
study on the support of poor people of France.
In 1896 she began teaching at Wellesley College.

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Activity
Balch was an active participant in the movements for women's
voting rights, for racial equality, for monitoring child labour
and for better wages for workers.
In 1926 she studied social conditions in occupied Haiti,
recommending the US government to withdraw its troops
and to provide land ownership to the local population.
In 1910 she published her book «Our Slavic Felow – Citizens», was on
Slavic immigrants in the United States.

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Faith and beliefs
During the Second World War she was involved
in refugee assistance.
The attack on Pearl-Harbor in 1941 changed Emily's opinion
about the neutrality of the United States,
and she supported the country's entry into the war.
After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, she
advocated the ban of nuclear weapons.

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Award
In 1946 «for her years of tireless work for the good of the world» Emily
Greene Balch was awarded the Nobel Prize.
She died on 9 January 1961 at the age of 95 years.

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Presentation created by
Rosenberg Alexander Olegovich