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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]
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]
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.
Pages in category "History of women in South Carolina" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Ladies Benevolent Society (Charleston)
Women's Educational and Industrial Union: Boston: Massachusetts: 1880 Exchange for Woman's Work: Bridgeport: Connecticut: 1887 Exchange for Woman's Work: Bristol: Rhode Island: 1885 Brooklyn Female Employment Society: Brooklyn: New York: 1854 [9] Woman's Exchange: Buffalo: New York: 1886 Exchange for Woman's Work: Charleston: South Carolina ...
Sarah Moore Grimké (November 26, 1792 – December 23, 1873) was an American abolitionist, widely held to be the mother of the women's suffrage movement. [1]: xxi Born and reared in South Carolina to a prominent and wealthy planter family, she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1820s and became a Quaker, as did her younger sister Angelina.
The South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs was formed in 1898 with thirty-two delegates from nineteen clubs. [2] In the early years of the federation members' emphasis was on education and access to books. [1] [2] The SCFWC became involved with the social causes of temperance and suffrage. [2]