Papers, 1932-1952, 1954

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Papers, 1932-1952, 1954

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Correspondence, articles, speeches, etc., of Edith A. Rockwood, a staff member of the Children’s Bureau and League of Women Voters activist.

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United States. Children's Bureau

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The Children's Bureau was formally created in 1912 when President William Howard Taft signed into law a bill creating the new federal government organization. The stated purpose of the new Bureau was to investigate and report "upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." The signing of this law culminated a grass-roots process started in 1903 by two early social reformers, Lillian Wald, of New York's Henry Street Settlement House, and...

League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Phillips, Ethel Rockwood

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Rockwood, Edith, 1888-1952

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A staff member of the Children's Bureau from 1932 to 1952, Rockwood was also active in the League of Women Voters. From the description of Papers, 1932-1954 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006824 ...

United States. Department of Labor

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Group health association of Washington, D.C.

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Washington Housing Association

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The Washington Housing Association was a civic group dedicated to promoting slum clearance and low-income housing in Washington, D.C. From the description of Records, 1935-1947. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70962764 The Washington Housing Association (WHA) was originally organized in 1933 as the Washington Committee on Housing to improve housing for low-income residents. WHA sponsored the Alley Dwelling Elimination Act of July 1934. Mrs. Charlo...