Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Flint Federation records, 1874-1980.

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Flint Federation records, 1874-1980.

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Records of the Flint Federation of the Michigan Woman's Christian Temperance Union, also records of the local chapters comprising the Flint Federation. The record group includes minutes and other material of the first established Flint chapter, 1874-1970 (some gaps) and records, primarily minutes and scrapbooks of other area, subsequently established, chapters.

1.8 lin. ft. and 1 oversize volume.

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Flint Federation (Flint, Mich.)

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The Flint chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union [WCTU] was founded in 1874, one of the first local unions of the organization in the state. The first meeting of the chapter drew fifty members, and the organization quickly grew to several hundred women and children over the next few years. Numbers were large enough that several separate chapters were formed in the Flint area, with their activities coordinated by the Flint Federation of the WCTU. In addition to the group's...

Woman's christian temperance union

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