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The Order of the Sons of Hermann (German: Orden der Hermannssöhne) is a mutual aid society for German immigrants that was formed in New York City on July 20, 1840, [1] [2] and remains active in the states of Connectict, California, Ohio, and Texas today. [3]
1883 Annual Report of the German Society of the City of New York . German Society of the City of New York. 1884. Wust, Klaus (1984). Guardian on the Hudson: the German Society of the City of New York, 1784-1984. New York. ISBN 9780917968112. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Wenner, George (1903). The Lutherans of New York: Their ...
Active in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. [50] Sons of Hermann; United League of America; Workmen's Benefit Fund - Founded as the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund in 1884, this organization was licensed to provide insurance in February 1899. The current name was adopted in 1939. [51]
Women's Health Protective Association, founded as the "Ladies' Health Protective Association" in 1884 in New York City, had 40 clubs from various cities at its 1897 convention in Philadelphia. Yesharah Society , founded 1928, a social organization of female returned missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .
Women in German Yearbook 1 (1985): 1-28. Clausen, Jeanette, and Jeannine Blackwell. “Yellowed Pages, Virtual Realities: Publication in Women in German's Past, Present, and Future.” Women in German Yearbook 20 (2004): 1-12. Joeres, Ruth-Ellen, and Marjorie Gelus. “Musing Together at Year Twenty.” Women in German Yearbook 20 (2004): 215 ...
At the Ladies’ Aid Society a group of women from Cleveland met and organized a "blanket raid" to collect blankets for the troops of soldiers. Months after the women organized the raid, they connected with other local groups to create the Soldiers' Aid Society. The organization was financed by private donations to care for the sick and wounded.
Assistance was given to its formation by the German consul in the City of New York. [2] The organization took over the membership of two older pro-Hitler organizations in the United States, the Free Society of Teutonia and Gau-USA. [5] [6] [7] [1] [8] The new entity was based in New York City, but had a strong presence in Chicago, Illinois. [2]
The most noteworthy trans-Atlantic diasporic connection to which Showing Our Colors speaks is that between black German women and black American women through the German women's contact with black, lesbian, womanist writer and activist Audre Lorde. Lorde's studies led her to engage with the black German experience as she furthered her ideology ...