Illinois League of Women Voters and Cook County League of Women Voters records, 1921-1961.

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Illinois League of Women Voters and Cook County League of Women Voters records, 1921-1961.

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Correspondence, minutes, financial records, and other records created and/or collected by the Illinois League of Women Voters and the Cook County League of Women Voters, both nonpartisan political organizations. Materials relate to the organizations' activities in the areas of health care, housing, social security, employment, child labor, maternity and infant care, and permanent voter registration. Includes 11 photocopied items related to Flora Sylvester Cheney (1872-1929), first president of the Illinois League of Women Voters.

7.5 linear ft. (16 boxes)

Chicago History Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 8081961

Chicago History Museum

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Cheney, Flora Sylvester.

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Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932

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Social worker and reformer, Julia Clifford Lathrop was the first head of the United States Children's Bureau. From the description of Letter, 1926. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007298 ...

Illinois League of Women Voters

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The Illinois League of Women Voters is also known as the League of Women Voters of Illinois. The Cook County League of Women Voters is also known as the League of Women Voters of Cook County. The League of Women Voters of Cook County (LWVCC) was formed in 1923 and is made up of a number of local leagues within Cook County (Ill.). The LWVCC forms part of the League of Women Voters of Illinois and the League of Women Voters of the United States. From the descri...

League of Women Voters of Cook County (Cook County, Ill.)

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The League of Women Voters of the United States was formed in 1919 when the Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women was passed. It grew out of the National Women's Suffrage Association. The League of Women Voters of Chicago was organized in 1950, when ten Chicago-area chapters of the League of Women Voters of Cook County merged. The League's objectives are to encourage full participation in the electoral process and to lobby the government for legislation of special concern to women. Such issue...

Cook County League of Women Voters (Ill.)

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League of Women Voters of Illinois

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The League of Women Voters of the United States was formed in 1919 when the Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women was passed. It grew out of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The League of Women Voters of Chicago was organized in 1950, when ten Chicago-area chapters of the League of Women Voters of Cook County merged. The League's objectives are to encourage full participation in the electoral process and to lobby the government for legislation of special concern to women. Suc...