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On December 1, 1961, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) published a 288-page book entitled Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications. [1] This massive list, annotated with notes documenting the first official government mention of alleged communist affiliation, superseded a very similar list published on January 2, 1957. [1]
In Croatia, the organization was named the Antifascist front of women of Croatia. [4] In Slovenia there were a number of titles: Antifascist women association, Antifascist Front Women, Antifascist Front of Women. It was founded under the name of Slovenian Antifascist Women Association. There was also a Slovenian Anti-Italian Women's Union.
The Women’s Movements’ Alliance was a women's rights organization in Yugoslavia, founded in 1923.It was initially known as the Feminist Alliance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, changed name to Feminist Alliance (FA— Feministička Alijansa), and in 1926 to Women’s Movements’ Alliance or AŽP— Alijansa ženskih pokreta / Alijansa ženskih pokretov).
Yugoslav Women's Alliance (Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslavenski Ženski Savez) also called National Women's Alliance (NWA; Serbo-Croatian: Narodni ženski savez / Slovene: Narodna ženska zveza) was a Yugoslavian organisation for women's rights, founded in September 1919 and abolished in 1961.
Many Britons fought during the American Civil War for both the United States and Confederate States. 67 British soldiers in the Union Army received the Medal of Honor. Dozens of British volunteers joined Croatian units and fought in the Yugoslav Wars between 1991 and 1995, most of them on the King Tomislav Brigade. [9]
Women's associations fall under wide and diverse set of categories, yet they all have a unified goal - helping women. It would be almost impossible to track history of the earliest women's association, but an endeavor can be made to list the most noteworthy organizations with a mission to help women in various sectors of their lives.
Ladies Oriental Shrine of North America - The first court of this women's Shrine related organization was founded in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1903. After two other courts were formed, a national organization was formed on June 24, 1914. [ 19 ]
The treatment of women was a fundamental difference between the Chetniks and Partisans [122] and Chetnik propaganda disparaged the female role in the Partisans. [121] Ruth Mitchell (ca. 1889–1969) was a reporter who was the only American woman to serve with the Chetniks. Fluent in German, she worked for the Chetniks as a spy and a courier for ...