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Ladies Benevolent Society (LBS) was a charitable organization for women, active in the city of Charleston, South Carolina between 1813 and remains currently active.. The LBS was founded in 1813 by white, elite women of Charleston.
Sarah Visanska was a founder and first president of the Charleston section of the National Council of Jewish Women. [2] She spent six years as president of the Charleston Civic Club, and two years as president of the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. [3]
Presidents of local LMAs from Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. A Ladies' Memorial Association (LMA) is a type of organization for women that sprang up all over the American South in the years after the American Civil War. Typically, these were organizations by and for women, whose goal was to raise monuments in Confederate soldiers honor.
Sarah Visanska graduated from the Charleston Female Seminary in 1889. She was president of the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs from 1910-1912. [7] The writer, lecturer, and artist, Louise Hammond Willis Snead, was a student at Charleston Female Seminary, and also had charge of the painting and drawing classes. [8]
Pages in category "19th-century in Charleston, South Carolina" ... Charleston in the American Civil War; E. ... Ladies Benevolent Society (Charleston) N.
Violence against women in South Carolina (8 P) Pages in category "History of women in South Carolina" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
1813 – Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina founded. [15] Ladies Benevolent Society founded. 1815 – Religious Tract Society of Charleston organized. 1816 – Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church founded. 1819 Charleston Mercury newspaper begins publication. New England Society of Charleston organized. [25]
Anna DeCosta Banks (September 2, 1869 – November 29, 1930) was an American nurse, and the first head nurse at the Hospital and Training School for Nurses in Charleston, South Carolina. Banks is known for her nursing career, as well as a later position as superintendent for 32 years at the same training school for nurses.