Balch, Emily Greene

US pacifist and social reformer

1867 - Born on the 8th of January in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.

1889 - Graduated and amongst the first graduates of Bryn Mawr College.

1896 - Balch joined the faculty of Wellesley College.

1913 - Became a full professor of economics and sociology.

Editor of The Nation, a well-known liberal news magazine.

Balch acted as secretary of the WILPF.

1920 - Became a Quaker. She never married.

1946 - She won Nobel Prize in Peace.

1961 - She died on 9th of January in Cambridge, MA because of Pneumonia.

Co-founded Women's International League for Peace and Freedom with Jane Addams.