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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. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] The club continued to work towards improvements for female inmates at the hospital, [ 49 ] conducted visits and monitored the status of ...
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 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]
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
The Alpha Suffrage Club was the first and most important black female suffrage club in Chicago and one of the most important in Illinois. [1] It was founded on January 30, 1913, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] by Ida B. Wells with the help of her white colleagues Belle Squire and Virginia Brooks .
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 ...
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 1916, she served as a delegate from Chicago's first black suffrage organization, the Alpha Suffrage Club, to the National Equal Rights League conference. She was elected president of the Chicago and Northern District Association of Colored Women's Clubs in 1921, serving into 1934. She was also involved in various charity clubs and ...