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The Chicago Woman's Club became involved in the Cook County Insane Hospital, where they supported Delia Howe become the assistant physician. [46] The Chicago Women's Club also made the case that further appointments should be women after Howe left and asked them to appoint and maintain Harriet C. B. Alexander to the open position.
Chicago Equal Suffrage Association, formerly the North Side Branch of IESA, created in 1910. [2] Chicago Political Equality League, formed in 1894. [3] [4] Chicago Teachers' Federation. [5] Chicago Woman's Club. [6] Cook County Woman's Suffrage Society. [7] Decatur Women's Suffrage Club, formed in 1888. [8] Democratic Club of Chicago, formed in ...
The club was only one aspect of the settlement house work focused on connecting middle-class black and white women. [4] The influential black activist Fannie Barrier Williams supported the work of the center and the club, believing that interracial activism could both bring women's suffrage and improve the lives of black women and girls in ...
The first women's suffrage group in Illinois was created by Susan B. Anthony's cousin, Susan Hoxie Richardson. [1] Richardson created the Earlville Suffrage Association in 1855. [2] Richardson had heard the women's suffrage speech given by lawyer and editor of the Earlville Transcript, Alonzo Jackson Grover, earlier that year. [3]
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.
In 2019, the women of the U.S. House put on a visual display of solidarity during the State of the Union, joined by some of their male colleagues clad in white jackets or ribbons in support. A ...
June: The General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) holds their biennial convention in Chicago where they formally support women's suffrage. [30] June 13: The Illinois Supreme Court upholds women's right to vote in School officer elections in Plummer v. Yost. [31] August 15: Self-Denial Day to raise money for suffrage efforts. [32] 1915
Many of the women participating in Chicago's She Ro intervention program have lost a loved one to gun violence. ... 90 women in the area were killed by gun violence and nearly 500 more were shot.