Co‑founds the Woman’s Peace Party in Washington, D.C., a pioneering national women’s pacifist group.
On January 10, 1915, Fanny Garrison Villard joined Jane Addams and other reformers in formally organizing the Woman’s Peace Party in Washington, D.C., one of the first national women’s pacifist organizations in the United States.
The founding convention brought together suffragists, settlement‑house workers, socialists, and clubwomen alarmed by World War I and the drift toward U.S. intervention. Drawing on her father’s doctrine of non‑resistance, Fanny helped shape the party’s commitment to arbitration, disarmament, and democratic control of foreign policy, insisting that women’s moral authority and political participation were essential to preventing war.
This date marks a genuine organizational "first"—the creation of a specifically women‑led national peace group that linked opposition to militarism with demands for full citizenship. The Woman’s Peace Party later became the U.S. section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, giving it enduring international reach.
Fanny’s role as a founder underscores the way she bridged suffrage and peace activism, arguing that the ballot was necessary for women to influence questions of war and peace. Her participation also highlighted the multigenerational continuity of U.S. pacifism: from William Lloyd Garrison’s nineteenth‑century non‑resistance to women’s efforts to stop global conflict in the twentieth century. The January 10 founding cemented her reputation as a leading figure in feminist pacifism.