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Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Woman's Temperance Publishing Association Woman's Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands
The club predates nearly all of the cultural organizations in the country and is the oldest for African American women in Virginia. It is also one of the oldest book clubs of African American women in the United States. The club's founding members were Mrs. Annie Hughes, Mrs. Ellen Russell, Mrs. Emma Roper, Mrs. Blanche Burke, and Mrs. Lucille ...
GEMS Girls' Clubs is a non-denominational, non-profit, Christian organization that seeks to equip women and girls to live radically faithful lives for Christ. Clubs are established in churches and other Christian organizations and allow women to mentor girls as they develop a living, dynamic relationship with Jesus.
The Louisiana Federation of Women's Clubs was organized in 1899. The 1922 directory listed 25 clubs, [8]: 96 not including any African-American women's clubs. Clubs in the state have included: Era Club of New Orleans, founded 1896; Krewe of Muses, New Orleans, founded in 2000; Tallulah Book Club Building, Tallulah, Louisiana, NRHP-listed
American Association for Women Radiologists; American Association of University Women (1881) American Equal Rights Association; American Heritage Girls; American Legion Auxiliary, founded 1919; American Woman Suffrage Association; Alabama's Colored Women's Club, covering clubs from 1888; Assata's Daughters, founded Chicago 2015, protesting ...
California State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs; Camp Nyoda; Carrizozo Woman's Club; Casa Grande Woman's Club Building; Castilian Club; Catholic Daughters of the Americas; Center Against Domestic Violence; Ceres (women's fraternity) Chi Delta Theta; Chi Iota Pi; Chi Omega; Chi Upsilon Sigma; Chicago Abortion Fund
1874 Christian Woman's Board of Missions; 1876 Foreign Christian Missionary Society; 1878 Evangelical Association Missionary Society; 1879 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant Church [5] 1882 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Free Methodist Church of North America [5] 1886 Student Volunteer Missionary Union
They were able to meet with state officials in order to have a say in community events. Until the right to vote was granted, these women's clubs were the best outlet for women to be heard and taken seriously. Women's clubs spread very rapidly after 1890, taking up some of the slack left by the decline of the WCTU and the temperance movement ...