Happenings
- POTW exhibit at WSU through April 5, 2013
- POTW exhibit in Portland May 3 - June 14, 2013
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Women peacemakers born today
- 1801 Abigail Hopper Gibbons born Philadelphia, PA (d. 1893). Quaker abolitionist; prison reformer.
- 1815 Elizabeth Hussey Whittier born Haverhill, MA (d. 1864). Quaker pacifist; poet; abolitionist; founder of Female Anti-Slavery Society, Boston, 1833; mobbed, 1835; sister of poet.
- 1876 Willa Cather (née Seibert) born Winchester, VA (d. 1947). Author; awarded Pulitzer Prize for antiwar novel One of Ours, 1922.
- 1937 Nikki Nojima Louis born Seattle, WA. Japanese-American interned during World War II; WILPF playwright, "Word of Mouth: Speaking & Singing for Peace" & "Most Dangerous Women."
- 1941 Melba Pattillo Beals born Little Rock, AR. One of Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School nonviolently, 1955; later earned doctorate in education; journalist.
Women's peacemaking on this day
- 1900 Emily Hobhouse set sail to South Africa to aid Boers during Second Boer War.
- 1922 "Conference for a New Peace" Emergency Peace Conference at The Hague called by WILPF, chaired by Jane Addams.
- 1943 Focolare Peace Movement founded.
- 1983 Cynthia Nelson made statement to court in Boeing trial.
- 1984 Imane Khalifeh awarded Alternative Nobel Prize for work in Lebanon war.
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