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of New York, and as executive secretary of the National College Equal Suffrage League. "On the day of my graduation," she told audiences while touring as a suffrage organizer in 1909, "I became actively interested in suffrage work and a member of the League, and I expect to devote the most of my time
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Caroline L. Babcock's papers are archived with those of Olive E. Hurlburt in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University. Another significant set of Babcock's letters are in the Harriot Stanton Blatch Collection at
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drafted a constitutional amendment calling for the power to declare or prepare for war to be removed from the powers of the U. S. Congress. She included the Boy Scouts among her targets, calling scouting a "kindergarten for war."
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Caroline Lexow married Philip Westerly Babcock in 1915. They had three children together, Caroline, Philip, and Katharine. Caroline Lexow Babcock died in 1980, still wearing a button supporting the
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After college Caroline Lexow became active full-time in the suffrage movement, as executive secretary assisting
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Caroline Lexow Babcock was on the Executive Committee and board of directors of the
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was a prominent German-American writer and editor. Caroline Lexow attended
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probe, and the former Katherine Morton. Caroline's grandfather
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in running the Women's Political Union, as president of the
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The Women's Peace Union and the Outlawry of War, 1921-1942
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The Women's Peace Union and the Outlawry of War, 1921–1942
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A Caroline Lexow Babcock Award has been given out by the
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Women's Peace Union
National Women's Party
Nyack, New York
Clarence Lexow
Lexow Committee
Rudolph Lexow
Barnard College
Harriot Stanton Blatch
College Equal Suffrage League
Women's Peace Society
Women's Peace Union
Elinor Byrns
Birth Control Federation of America
Equal Rights Amendment
Vassar College
Rockland County
National Organization for Women
""Rudolph Lexow," New York Times (July 17, 1909)"
"Barnard College Archives, Alumnae Biographical Files inventory"
the original
Laura van Assendelft and Jeffrey D. Schultz, eds., Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics (Greenwood Publishing 1998): 17.
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0815604173
"Miss Lexow is a Real, Live Suffragette," Topeka Daily Capital (January 28, 1909): 5.
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Peace as a Woman's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women's Rights
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