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She was a member of the Chicago Press Club, the Chicago Woman's Club, the WRC, the Woman's Exchange, the Home of the Friendless, and many other similar organizations. [2] She was among the first to interest the public in a woman's department for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and she was one of the lady managers of the exposition.
Preservation Chicago listed the last Chicago Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home as one of Chicago's 7 most endangered buildings in February 2021. [5] [9] The New Orleans club, which was founded by Sylvanie Francoz Williams, also opened a kindergarten and day care for working women and the club was also involved in black women's suffrage. [10]
The Women and Leadership Archives has its roots in Mundelein College, which was founded and operated by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM), and provided education to women from 1930 to 1991, when it affiliated with Loyola University Chicago. The Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, named after Mundelein College's longest ...
Founder and Presidents, Chicago Woman's Club. The Chicago Woman's Club was formed in 1876 by women in Chicago who were interested in "self and social improvement." [1] The club was notable for creating educational opportunities in the Chicago region and helped create the first juvenile court in the United States. [1]
Allison Guth (born 1981 or 1982) is the coach of the Loyola Ramblers women's basketball team since 2022. For her basketball experience, Guth and Buffalo Grove High School won their first girls basketball title in 2000 as part of the Illinois High School Association.
Young Women's Leadership Charter School (YWLCS) was a grade 9-12 charter high school for girls in Douglas, Chicago, Illinois. [1] [2] The school was established in 1999. As of 2016 it had almost 350 students; it was Chicago's only public school only for girls. [3] The school used a lottery to determine admission. [4]
Mary Talbert, President of the National Association of Colored Women. Courtesy of The Champion Magazine, 1916 [7]. Described by her peers as "the best-known colored woman in the United States," Talbert used her education to take part in anti-lynching and anti-racism work, alongside supporting women's suffrage.
Catharine Gouger Waugh McCulloch (June 4, 1862 – April 20, 1945) was an American lawyer, suffragist, and reformer.She actively lobbied for women's suffrage at the local, state, and national levels as a leader in the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, Chicago Political Equality League, and National American Woman Suffrage Association.