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About 13.4 million children under the age of 18 live in rural areas of the nation. [12] Children in rural areas had lower rates of poverty than those in urban areas (18.9 percent compared with 22.3 percent), but more of them were uninsured (7.3 percent compared with 6.3 percent). A higher percentage of "own children" in rural areas lived in ...
In 1890 65% of the national population, or 36 million people, lived in rural areas. Of these 2.7 million lived in 13,000 towns of less than 2500 people. and 36 million --mostly farmers--lived in open country. In 1920 the urban population reached 54 million, or 51% while rural America had 52 million or 49%. [5]
Women's clubs in the United States were indexed by the GFWC, and also by Helen M. Winslow who published an annual "register and directory" of the GFWC ones and some more, which was in its 24th annual edition in 1922. [7] The GWFC did not admit clubs for African-American women, and Winslow's directory seems to omit them too.
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Oprah's 100th Book Club pick is a homage to Little Women set in modern-day Chicago. A close-knit, rambunctious family of four sisters is forever changed when the eldest, Julia, marries a young man ...
In Texas, Mary Evelyn V. Hunter worked as the statewide home demonstration agent for black women from 1915 to 1931. [27] The clubs sometimes met in rural schoolhouses, such as the Galen Elementary School in Macon County, Tennessee. [40] Home demonstration agents serving rural women overlapped with 4-H clubs, including in Montana. [4]
Emma Roberts has been making her love of books known for years, through her book club and online reading community, Belletrist. In 2017, Roberts and her best friend, Karah Preiss, founded ...
During this time Women's Clubs were encouraged to promote bookmobiles because they embraced their ideas and missions. After receiving so much support and promotion these traveling libraries increased in numbers all around the United States. In the state of New York from 1895 to 1898 the number of bookmobiles increased to 980. The United States ...