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List of women's clubs. La Puente Valley Woman's Club. Women's Club of Coconut Grove, founded in 1891. Andover Chapter House, in 2011. General Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters. Woman's clubs or women's clubs are examples of the woman's club movement. Many local clubs and national or regional federations were influential in history.
The Ebell of Los Angeles is a women-led and women-centered nonprofit housed in a historic campus in the Mid-Wilshire section of Los Angeles, California. It includes numerous performance spaces, meeting rooms, classrooms, and the 1,238-seat Wilshire Ebell Theatre. The Ebell works to uplift the Los Angeles community through arts, learning, and ...
Ada Waite Hildreth, San Diego County and Southern District Chairman, Indian welfare, California Fed. of Women's Clubs, Second Vice-President, San Diego County Fed. of Women's Clubs [19] Etha Izora Dawley Holden, From 1925–27, auditor of California Federation of Women's Clubs [19] Dorothy D. Houghton (1890–1972) Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910)
In 1906, the California State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs was formed by Mrs. Eliza Warner It was located the 15th Street A.M.E. Church in Oakland, California. Mrs. Warner was the first president. [1] The California State Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc., joined the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC), in 1908 ...
Membership discrimination in California social clubs has been based on sex, race, religion, political views and social standing. In the late 1980s, a successful effort was made in many of the clubs to open up membership first to racial or religious minorities and then to women. Strictly private clubs that are not open to the public, and for ...
The club was founded by abolitionist, suffragist, mother, and Los Angeles homemaker Caroline Severance in 1891, with 87 other women in the reading room of the Hollenbeck Hotel, then located at Second and Broadway. [2] The Friday Morning Club became the largest women's club in California, with membership of over 1,800 women by the 1920s. [3] [4] [5]
Five women officers of the Women's League in Newport, Rhode Island, c. 1899. The women's club movement was a social movement that took place throughout the United States that established the idea that women had a moral duty and responsibility to transform public policy. While women's organizations had existed earlier, it was not until the ...
The Woman's Improvement Club of Corona was founded in 1899 [3] as the "Town Improvement Association". [2] The name was changed to the "Woman’s Improvement Club" in 1902. [2] The club is a member of the California Federation of Women's Clubs and the General Federation of Women's Clubs and remains active.