Emily
Greene Balch worked for many causes for a better world -- women's right to vote,
racial equality and labor laws for women and children, but when World War I broke
out, she became convinced that her mission in life was to work for peace. With
Jane Addams, she helped to form what was to become the Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom. In 1918, her commitment to peace cost her her job as a
Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, where she had taught for over 20
years. For the next fifty years, Emily Greene Balch continued to work for a more
peaceful and just world and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
