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The Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs (KFWC) was created in July 1894, when several women met in Lexington to form the group. [2] It was the fourth state federation of women's clubs to become affiliated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC). [1] The club has held annual meetings since the first one in 1985 at Richmond. [3]
Susan Look Avery (née Look; October 27, 1817 – February 1, 1915) was an American writer, suffragist, pacifist and supporter of temperance as well as a single tax. She hosted Lucy Stone and husband Henry Blackwell when they came to Louisville, Kentucky for the American Woman Suffrage Association meeting—the first suffrage convention in the South—in 1881.
The Business Women's Club is a building located on Muhammad Ali Boulevard in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 7, 2008. [2] The club was co-founded by Jennie Benedict in 1899. [3]
She became a member of Democratic Party and was elected to the Women’s National Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee in 1920. [4] In 1921, she was a speaker at a rally for W. Overton Harris, the Democratic candidate for Mayor, [4] and an excerpt of her speech appeared in African-American newspaper The Louisville Leader.
A demolition crew preparing rundown historic buildings in Louisville, Ky., for interior demolition uncovered an abandoned sado-masochistic swingers club that has sat empty since at least the mid ...
Hroswitha Club (1944-1999) a club of women bibliophiles, all excluded (until 1976) from the men's Grolier Club and the Caxton Club. [16]) 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. [ 17 ]
The original clubhouse, c. 1906 The Pendennis Club was founded by Thomas Wilson Todd (1852–1892), Levi Bloom (1854–1944), John Smith Noyes (1842–1922), and William Whits Hite (1854–1908) who, with sixteen others, hosted a preliminary meeting for starting the club in Mr. Todd's office in Louisville City Hall on June 28, 1881.
A History of the Woman's Club of Central Kentucky, 1894-1994. Lexington, Kentucky: Woman's Club of Central Kentucky. Crowe-Carraco, Carol (1989). Women Who Made a Difference. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813109019. Fuller, Paul E. (1975). Laura Clay and the Woman's Rights Movement. Lexington, Kentucky: University ...