Lella Secor Florence (February 13, 1887 – January 14, 1966), née Lella Faye Secor, was an American writer, journalist, pacifist, feminist and pioneer of birth control.
[3] In 1906 she became a journalist in Battle Creek and then in a variety of towns in Washington state.
[1] She co-founded two pacifist organisations that aimed to keep the United States out of World War One: the American Neutral Conference Committee and the Emergency Peace Federation.
[6] Ivor Montagu wrote of Secor in his autobiography that she was "a freckled American redhead who had been a spirited battler against the violence with which the U.S. authorities assailed pacifist protest.
[11] Lella remained committed to disarmament, birth control and women's rights and continued to write and campaign.