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- NAME: Emily Greene Balch
- OCCUPATION: Educator, Activist
- BIRTH DATE: January 08, 1867
- DEATH DATE: January 09, 1961
- EDUCATION: Bryn Mawr College
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston, Massachusetts
- PLACE OF DEATH: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Full Name: Emily Greene Balch
- AKA: Emily Balch
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Social activist and pacifist Emily Greene Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for being a lifetime advocate of the persecuted and oppressed.
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Nobel Peace Prize
In 1946, Balch received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her life's work. She shared the prize with John R. Mott, an official with the Young Men's Christian Association. Rather than keep the prize money, Balch decided to donate it to the organization she had supported for so long: the WILPF.
Emily Greene Balch spent her last few years in declining health. She entered a Massachusetts nursing home in 1956, and died on January 9, 1961, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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