Schwimmer, Rosika (1877-1948)

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International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (ICWPP)

International Council of Women

International Congress of Women (1915)

International Congress of Women (1919)

Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation (1916)

WILPF International Summer School (1924)

Women's Constructive Peace Conference (1915)

Lucia Osbourne Ford to Rosika Schwimmer, March 5, 1913

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, June 9, 1913

Florence Wells Young to Rosika Schwimmer, August 31, 1914

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, December 11, 1914

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, December 13, 1914

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, December 14, 1914

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, January 6, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, January 19, 1915

Harriet Park Thomas to Rosika Schwimmer, January 30, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, March 29, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, March 30, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, June 26, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, July 6, 1915

Mary Rozet Smith to Rosika Schwimmer, September 10, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, September 17, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, September 27, 1915

Jane Addams, to Rosika Schwimmer, October 15, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, October 20, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, October 27, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, November 15, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, November 17, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, November 27, 1915

Alice Hamilton to Rosa Schwimmer and Louis Paul Lochner, December 2, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, December 13, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, December 15, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, December 26, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, January 27, 1916

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, January 28, 1916

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, February 18, 1916

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, July 24, 1916

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, August 11, 1916

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, August 22, 1916

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, August 23, 1916

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, July 3, 1921

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, December 2, 1921

Anna Mary Lloyd for Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, December 7, 1921

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, March 10, 1922

Jane Addams to Rosika Swimmer, October 5, 1922

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, October 3, 1923

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, December 7, 1923

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, March 18, 1924

Lida Gustava Heymann to Rosika Schwimmer, April 10, 1924

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, April 15, 1924

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, April 16, 1924

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, June 29, 1924

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, September 10, 1924

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, October 3, 1924

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, January 8, 1925

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, February 2, 1925

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Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, September 15, 1914

Jane Addams to Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, November 30, 1914

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, ca. December 1914

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 8, 1914

Jane Addams to William Jennings Bryan, December 13, 1914

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, December 14, 1914

Jane Addams to Grace Hoffman White, December 15, 1914

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, December 16, 1914

Harry S. Mecartney to Jane Addams, December 16, 1914

Minutes of the Emergency Peace Committee, December 19, 1914

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 21, 1914

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, December 21, 1914

Jane Addams to Anne Porterfield Rankin, December 23, 1914

Jane Addams to Women's Constructive Peace Conference invitees, December 28, 1914

Jane Addams to Lucia Ames Mead, December 28, 1914

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, December 30, 1914

Old Glory: The Flag of Hope for World Peace, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, January 4, 1915

Grace Hoffman White to Jane Addams, January 15, 1915

Anna Garlin Spencer to Jane Addams, January 18, 1915

Madame Schwimmer's Mail and Telegraphic Addresses, January 28, 1915

Kate Waller Barrett to Jane Addams, February 12, 1915

Katherine Leckie to Jane Addams, February 17, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, March 16, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, March 27, 1915

Women in Earnest, Says Jane Addams, April 28, 1915

Women's Congress Honors Belgians, April 30, 1915

Rosa Manus to Jane Addams, May 4, 1915

Appointment of Roskia Schwimmer a Peace Envoy, May 8, 1915

Alice Hamilton to Louise de Koven Bowen, May 16, 1915

Emily Greene Balch to Louis Paul Lochner, June 1, 1915

Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs to the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace, July 1915

Deputations to the European Governments, July 1915

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, July 3, 1915

United States Consulate (Amsterdam) to Survey, July 6, 1915

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, July 29, 1915

Thora Daugaard to Jane Addams, August 2, 1915

Harriet Park Thomas to Mabel L. Hyers, August 17, 1915

Emily Hobhouse to Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs, August 21, 1915

Mary Rozet Smith to Emily Greene Balch, August 22, 1915

Mary Rozet Smith to Mabel L. Hyers, August 26, 1915

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, August 26, 1915

Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs to Jane Addams, September 8, 1915

Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs to Jane Addams, September 13, 1915

Jane Addams to Mary Jane Hawes Wilmarth, September 20, 1915

Jane Addams to Louis Paul Lochner, September 21, 1915

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, September 21, 1915

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, September 24, 1915

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, September 24, 1915

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, October 5, 1915

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Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, August 17, 1914

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, December 8, 1914

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, December 12, 1914

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 1, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 19, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 21, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 24, 1915

Katherine Leckie to Jane Addams, January 28, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 29, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, February 16, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Grace Hoffman White, February 16, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, February 18, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, March 24, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, April 4, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, April 12, 1915

International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace Minutes, May 16-18, 1915

Emily Greene Balch, Chrystal Macmillan, Cornelia Ramondt-Hirschmann, and Rosika Schwimmer to Carl Theodor Zahle, May 28, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Woman's Peace Party, July 5, 1915

Proposal for a Conference of the Neutral Nations, August 2, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, August 4, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, August 20, 1915

Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs, Chrystal Macmillan, Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, September 9, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer and Chrystal Macmillan to Jane Addams, September 11, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, September 14, 1915

Chrystal Macmillan and Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, September 27, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, September 27, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, October 7, 1915

Manifesto Issued by International Congress of Women Envoys, October 15, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, November 25, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, November 26, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, November 27, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, November 29, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer and Louis Paul Lochner to Jane Addams, December 2, 1915

Henry Ford et al. to Jane Addams, December 7, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer, Lola Maverick Lloyd, Florence Holbrook, Alfred Will Kliefoth to Jane Addams, December 8, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 10, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 26, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to George Washington Kirchwey, January 26, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 26, 1916

Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation, Tentative Constitution, March 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, March 12, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Henry Ford, July 31, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Henry Ford, August 1, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Henry Ford, August 2, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Henry Ford, August 8, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, August 10, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, August 15, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, August 19, 1916

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Birth Date

1877-09-11

Death Date

1948-08-03

Birthplace

Budapest, Hungary

Biographical Text

Rosika Schwimmer was a Hungarian pacifist and feminist who started work as a bookkeeper and labor activist. Schwimmer organized women workers in Budapest,and then shifted her focus to women's rights when she founded the Hungarian Council of Women in 1904. Schwimmer engaged with the international suffrage movement, and supported efforts to secure birth control, abolish child labor and reform marriage. In 1914, she left Hungary to become the secretary of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.

When World War I began, Schwimmer sought to convene a meeting of neutral nations to mediate a settlement, traveling the United States in an unsuccessful effort to gain sponsorship. Schwimmer toured the United States in 1914, lecturing on peace and suffrage, and joined with Jane Addams to form the Women's Peace Party. Schwimmer suggested the 1915 Hague Congress of Women, and led follow-up delegations to neutral countries. In 1915 she convinced Henry Ford to support the Ford Neutral Mediation Conference in Stockholm. The American delegation sailed for Europe on the much-touted "Peace Ship," but the mission ultimately failed. Schwimmer found it difficult to work with many of the delegates and she alienated both them and the American press.

She returned to the U.S. in 1916 to try to meet with Ford, but he refused to see her. Schwimmer was named Hungarian ambassador to Sweden in 1918, but after the Communist takeover of Hungary in 1920, she fled to Vienna, and then the United States. The American press had not forgotten her, and vilified her in the press. In 1928, Schwimmer was denied American citizenship because of her pacifist views. She fought the ban to the Supreme Court, but lost.

Schwimmer married Paul Bédy in 1911, but they divorced, childless, in 1913. She died, in New York, in 1948.