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Emily Greene Balch

1867 - 1961

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Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist. Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor, and immigration, as well as settlement work to uplift poor immigrants and reduce juvenile delinquency. She moved into the peace movement at the start of World War I in 1914, and began collaborating with Jane Addams of Chicago. She became a central leader of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) based in Switzerland, for which she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emily Greene Balch is the 26th most popular social activist (up from 30th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from United States (up from 248th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Social Activist.

Emily Greene Balch was an American Quaker who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her work in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emily Greene Balch ranks 26 out of 840. Before her are Mary Harris Jones, Peter Kropotkin, Betty Williams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Élie Ducommun, and Sophia of Prussia. After her are Guy Fawkes, Robert Owen, Margaret Sanger, Shirin Ebadi, Charlotte Corday, and Thích Quảng Đức.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Emily Greene Balch ranks 8. Before her are Mary of Teck, Edgar de Wahl, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Józef Piłsudski, Margaret Brown, and Frank Lloyd Wright. After her are Luigi Pirandello, Louise, Princess Royal, Pierre Bonnard, Arturo Toscanini, John Galsworthy, and Käthe Kollwitz. Among people deceased in 1961, Emily Greene Balch ranks 8. Before her are Ernest Hemingway, Erwin Schrödinger, Zog I of Albania, Dag Hammarskjöld, Patrice Lumumba, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. After her are Lee de Forest, Jules Bordet, Gary Cooper, Percy Williams Bridgman, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Edith Wilson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emily Greene Balch ranks 232 out of 20,380. Before her are Ray Bradbury (1920), Humphrey Bogart (1899), George Lucas (1944), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), J. D. Salinger (1919), and Willard Van Orman Quine (1908). After her are Candice Bergen (1946), Josephine Baker (1906), Clark Gable (1901), Johnny Cash (1932), Truman Capote (1924), and Linus Pauling (1901).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Emily Greene Balch ranks 7. Before her are Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Helen Keller (1880), Rosa Parks (1913), and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868). After her are Margaret Sanger (1879), Harriet Tubman (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Jody Williams (1950), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), and Jane Addams (1860).

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