League of Women Voters of the Springfield Area (Springfield, Ill.)
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League of Women Voters of the Springfield Area (Springfield, Ill.)
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Organization of local voting-age women interested in promoting political responsibility by informing citizens of governmental processes and issues, and urging constructive change in government.
Organized as the League of Women Voters of Sangamon County and interested in local government and industry, the first meeting was sponsored by Mrs. Ralph McNulty and Florence Fifer Bohrer in April of 1939. The name was changed in 1954 to the League of Women Voters of Springfield, Illinois, and in 1975 to the League of Women Voters of the Springfield Area. The scope of the organization broadened to include foreign affairs during World War II. Also during the 1940s the emphasis of the group shifted to a more proactive stance in working for constructive change in government. The group is the local chapter of the League of Women Voters of Illinois and the League of Women Voters of the United States.
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Civil procedure
Conservation of natural resources
Firearms
Health boards
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Springfield (Ill.)
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Illinois--Sangamon County
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Illinois--Springfield
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Illinois
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Springfield, Lake (Ill.)
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Illinois--Springfield, Lake
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