© 2004 American Public Health Association
Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Theodore M. Brown, PhD, Department of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail: theodore_ brown@urmc.rochester.edu).
IN APRIL 1915, 1300 WOMEN from across Europe and North America came together in a congress of women to protest the killing and destruction of the war then raging in Europe. The organizers of the congress were prominent women in the International Suffrage Alliance, who saw a connection between their struggle for equal rights and the struggle for peace.1 They elected Jane Addams, founder of Hull House in Chicago, Ill, as president.
The congress passed 20 resolutions demanding an end to the conflict and the promotion of a permanent peace. Its members called on governments to establish a conference of
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