Emily Greene Balch

Date of Birth
08/01/1867

Date of Death
09/01/1961

​City
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

​Country
United States

Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist, and pacifist. She participated in movements for women’s suffrage, for racial justice, for control of child labor, for better wages and conditions of labor; she contributed to knowledge with her research, notably, Our Slavic Fellow-Citizens (1910), a study of the main concentrations of Slavs in America and of the areas in Austria and Hungary from which they emigrated. The Nobel Peace Prize 1946 was divided equally between Emily Greene Balch “for her lifelong work for the cause of peace” and John Raleigh Mott “for his contribution to the creation of a peace-promoting religious brotherhood across national boundaries.”

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