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They met with success but it was only temporary so by the next summer the women concluded that they must become organized nationally. This led to the founding of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union - the oldest continuing non-sectarian woman's organization in the world.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing non-sectarian women's organization worldwide. Founded in Evanston, Illinois in 1873, the group spearheaded the crusade for proh...
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History Dictionary: Women's Christian Temperance Union ... Willard also started her own organization in 1883 called the World's Women Christian Temperance Union, and eventually became president in 1879.[11]
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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the nation's largest women's organization during the late 1800s, attracted over 150,000 mostly Protestant, middle-class members by 1900. The WCTU provided thousands of Christian women with a perceivably riskless transition into the secular world of women's associations.
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However the prohibition movement as a whole did not start with the introduction of the eighteenth amendment but rather some forty-five years earlier with the founding of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, which can be largely credited with the initial success of prohibition.
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And a Christian above or below all else depending on if you take it literally as in the way it is typed or figuratively as in the way i... - Full profile ... Temperance | women's suffrage | Elizabeth Gilbert...
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union ... For the next two decades Willard led the temperance movement as the WCTU became one of the largest and most influential women’s groups of the 19th century. ... For a definition of "Woman's Christian Temperance Union", visit Merriam-Webster.
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St. James' Hall the scene of the supper, which was gotten up by the ladies of the Humane Society and of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Fully 250 boys were in the hall, and all were most orderly.
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Using an extensive array of primary sources, including local Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) minute books and correspondence, Sharon Cook describes the origins, structures, strategies, and achievements of the Ontario WCTU in the ... Tracing the empowerment of women in the WCTU to the union's evangelical roots,
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