| Motivation: | Edwin Mead promoted international justice and peace. Mead and Edwin Ginn successfully managed to open a free peace academy in Boston (The International School of Peace). Mead continued to publish and distribute literature on peace. He also wrote about and lectured on the topic and in 1909 he became Director of the World Peace Foundation. Attended several international peace conferences.
Lucia Mead rendered Edwin Mead great assistance in his peace work both through speeches and writings, and she attended most of the conferences and congresses her husband participated in. She was also a peace worker in her own right. President of the peace and arbitration department of the National Women Suffrage Association, vice-president of the American Peace Society and member of the Council of the World Peace Foundation. |
