Woman's Christian Temperance Union
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an active international temperance organization. It was one of the first organizations of women who wanted social reform. They did this with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."[1] It was influential in the temperance movement, and supported the 18th Amendment. It was also influential in social reform issues that became big in the progressive era.
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The WCTU started on December 23, 1873, in Hillsboro, Ohio. It officially had a national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874.[2]
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Media
This 1902 illustration from the Hawaiian Gazette newspaper humorously illustrates the Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union's campaign against the producers and sellers of beers in Hawaii.
In 1897, the Demorest Medal Contests system merged with that of the WCTU, which designed its own series of medals (pictured). Adelia E. Carman served as the medal department Supervisor for 30 years.
Women of the WCTU at a meeting, 1924
WCTU display booth at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, 1945
Exterior of the National WCTU headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, a building on the national register of historic places.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union Administration Building in Evanston, Illinois, has been the headquarters of the WCTU since 1910.
Banner, Gore Women's Christian Temperance Union
First Alberta Provincial WCTU convention, 1913, Olds, Alberta
Frances Willard was president of the WCTU for 19 years.
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References
- ↑ Tyrrell, Ian (1991). Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective 1880-1930. Chapel Hill and London: The University of Carolina Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-8078-1950-0.
- ↑ Gordon, Elizabeth Putnam (1924). Woman Torch Bearers. Woman Christian Temperance Union. p. 15.
Other websites
- World Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, by Frances Willard, President (October, 1893)
- Modern History Sourcebook: Woman's Christian Temperance Union: Growth of Membership and of Local, Auxiliary Unions, 1879-1921 Archived 2014-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
- “We Sang Rock of Ages”: Frances Willard Battles Alcohol in the late 19th century, by Frances Willard
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Nebraska Chapter) records at the Nebraska State Historical Society
- WCTU in Our Heritage Archived 2005-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Iowa Chapter) records Archived 2011-11-30 at the Wayback Machine at the Iowa Women's Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City
- National Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australia The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
- Ruth Tibbits Tooze Papers, 1938-1940, at the Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries