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The club was founded in 1906 by Celia Parker Woolley, a white Unitarian minister and novelist. [3] Most of the members of the club were middle-class, and it was an interracial club. [3] The club met weekly, hosting speakers who discussed political events of the day, including votes for women.
Hroswitha Club (1944-1999) a club of women bibliophiles, all excluded (until 1976) from the men's Grolier Club and the Caxton Club. [15]) It met first at the Cosmopolitan Club (New York City) (a women's club) and met four to five times a year at multiple locations. [ 16 ]
The Story of Seventy-five Years of the Chicago and Northern District Association of Club Women, Inc., 1906-1981 was first published in 1956, then reprinted in 1981. [ 2 ] Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African American Women's Clubs in Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago [ 5 ]
The Woman's City Club of Chicago became involved in strike resolution. [191] The Woman's City Club also demanded that picketers be protected by policewomen. [191] The Woman's Club of Chicago helped form the Illinois Woman's Alliance (IWA) in order to "prevent the exploitation of women in sweatshops". [192]
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The Fortnightly of Chicago is a woman's club founded in Chicago in 1873 by Kate Newell Doggett. [1] It is the oldest women's association in Chicago. [2]Kate Newell Doggett served as the first president from 1873 through 1879.