Michigan Woman's Christian Temperance Union records 1874-2006

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Michigan Woman's Christian Temperance Union records 1874-2006

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85596?rgn=main;view=text

State chapter of national temperance organization founded in 1874; records include correspondence of early W.C.T.U. workers, Alice E. H. Peters and Ella Eaton Kellogg; also minutes, scrapbooks, and other records of individual Michigan W.C.T.U. districts and chapters.

16 linear feet (in 17 boxes) and 3 oversize volumes

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Bentley Historical Library

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Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898

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Best known for her leadership (1879-1898) of the influential Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Willard also supported and often spearheaded a wide variety of social reforms, including woman suffrage, economic equality, and fair labor laws. Willard gained an international reputation through her speeches and publications. She was the first woman to be honored with a statue in the U.S Capitol building, and her Evanston home was one of the first house museums to in the country. ...

Gordon, Anna A. (Anna Adams), 1853-1931

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Gordon was a social reformer, writer of songs for children, biographer of Frances Willard, and president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. From the description of Invitation, April 1895. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 436775739 ...

Michigan Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

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With the assistance and encouragement of an Ohio women's temperance union, local Michigan women's temperance groups met in Lansing in February 1874 for the purpose of forming a state organization of their own. Later in 1874 this organization took the name Michigan Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). The group's main purpose was to work for the outlawing of liquor sales in the state of Michigan. Like other burgeoning state organizations, the Michigan WCTU was organized in part...

Woman's christian temperance union

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Temperance organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. Campaigning against the use of alcohol and in favor of labor laws and prison reform, the W.C.T.U. became one of the largest and most influential women's organizations of the 19th century. It became global when the World W.C.T.U. was founded in 1883. The organization continued to exist through the 20th century, although membership declined after the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919. From the description of ...

Kellogg, E. E. (Ella Ervilla)

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Peters, Alice E. H.

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