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17 Cards in this Set
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WTUL
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founded in Boston by Mary Kenney
-created alliance between working class and reform minded middle class women |
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Jane Addams
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founder of Hull House
-created housing for reform women -fought for community wellness and liveable conditions(garbage inspector) |
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Muller v Oregon
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laundry owner made women work 10+ hrs a day....Brandise Breed proposed that long work hours physically harmed women
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maternalism (maternal commonewealth)
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beleif womanly influence was needed in society
-governement should act as nurturing figure to society -organized for factory safety, pure food leg., labor reform |
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NY ShirtwaIst Makers Strike (1909)
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women in manufacturing sector had problems gaining labor union support
-worked toward establishing better working conditions and spurred growth of ILGWU |
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Rose Schneiderman
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working class leader of WTUL (helped estab. ILGWU)
-lobbied for healthy working conditions and created alliance between working class women and middle class women....became chief labor organizer for women |
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NAWSA (National American Womens Suffrage Association)
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estab 1890
-national womens suff. assoc. & american womens suff. assoc. merged -radical activists -gained attention and lobbied for womens suffrage |
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National Womens Party (NWP)
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1917
-alice paul (branh off of NAWSA) -REALLLY RADICAL LADIES -gained notariety, press, sypathy for treatment -very influential in womens suffrage amendment |
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Mary Church Terrell
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educated A.A. women
-member of NACW -fought for civil and womens rights -progressive woman |
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NACW (national association of colored women)
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1896 founded
-goals were to: better condtions of A.A. life & create better image of A.A. women -created daycares, mothers clubs, kindergartens, etc. for-womens suffrage against-jim crow laws |
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1880 Atlanta laundresses Strike
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women workers went on strike to establish set laundry prices
-met/organized in churches |
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higher education
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women broke into higher ed. in late 19th century
-beleived that education would physically harm women -could cause mesntral cyle to cease to exist! -women should ultimately stay home |
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settlement houses
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places for reform (middle-upper class) women to live
-Hull House--first settlement house -provided classes and services to people in community (community center/social service) |
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Womens Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
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women would enter saloon and pray to stop drinking--resulted in closing of 1000 saloons
-overall wanted to better community and stop drinking |
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General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC)
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founded 1890
-umbrella club of many local clubs -participated in volunteer work -worked to establish idea of "New Women" |
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True Womanhood
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women should be:
-pious-pure-submissive-domestic Not same across all races |
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National Consumers Leage (NCL)
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founded 1899
-created white and black lists -concern for health of products and consumers (Florence Kelley) -comprised of Jewish and Catholic women |
