In 1926 Kellor co-founded the American Arbitration Association (AAA). As with earlier organizations she founded, such as the National Urban League, she formed it by merging her organization with others. And, as with several other organizations, she served as the AAA's Vice-President under the titular leadership of a male President.

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Kellor served as the Vice President of the AAA for the rest of her life. The AAA currently has thirty-four offices and arbitrates more than 200,000 disputes a year.

In her final writing on immigrants, Kellor denounced Americanization for its prejudice and launched the idea of the "International Human Being." Dovetailing with her arbitration work, she argued for international treaties to protect migratory workers.

The multicultural and international view of society Kellor promoted aimed at a world in which all persons, regardless of cultural backgrounds and beliefs, would be welcome and have financial and political access. Kellor's promoting political participation and social justice as cornerstones of American identity may be her most profound contribution.

Kellor died on January 4, 1952. Upon Kellor's death, she was eulogized by many luminaries including Thomas J. Watson of IBM.

More personally, Mary Dreier, who survived Kellor by nine years, received many letters expressing condolences and admiration for the two women's special friendship of 47 years.

Until the beginning of the twentieth century, intimate, exclusive, and often erotic romantic friendships between women were largely perceived as normal and socially acceptable.

It is significant for glbtq history that a number of the women volunteers in the settlement house movement--which flourished at the turn of the twentieth century--formed close, lasting relationships with one another while living and working together.

Since the 1990s, Social Work has slowly become a more glbtq-friendly profession.

As an academic field, sociology has only recently begun to examine sexuality, and members of the profession are divided over glbtq concerns.

Although lesbians and athletics have long been identified with each other, lesbian athletes, despite great achievements, still face numerous obstacles.

Women whom we would identify as lesbian or bisexual led the American movement for women's right to vote and hold political office.

American reformer, social worker, peace activist, and Nobel Laureate Jane Addams is remembered as the founder of Hull House in Chicago, but her involvement in same-sex relationships has consistently been hidden or minimized by biographers.

Boston marriages--romantic unions between women that were usually monogamous but not necessarily sexual--flourished in the late nineteenth-century between women who tended to be college-educated, feminist, financially independent, and career-minded.

An important advocate for the poor and oppressed and one of the most influential women in the world, Eleanor Roosevelt had throughout her life strong attachments to women, some of them probably resulting in sexual intimacy.

Lillian Wald, an American public health nurse and social reformer, is the model of a Victorian-era lesbian active in the settlement house movement.