American Association of University Women. Boston Branch.

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) began in Boston during the late 19th century as the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA). According to its first president, "The members have organized in order better to utilize their privileges in personal education and to perform their duty in respect to popular education." The Boston Branch was established in 1886. Formal committees undertook such tasks as investigating conditions in the Boston public schools and in public laundries, surveying salaries of college-educated women, studying domestic management, aiding settlement work, and participating in war relief. In 1890, the Boston Branch organized the College Club for purely social purposes. Boston was one of six AAUW branches that in 1930 joined with two other college clubs to form the Massachusetts State Division of the AAUW.

From the description of Records, 1886-1978 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006822