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| Women’s Christian Temperance Union |
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| (WCTU) party crusade during 1870s. Largest organization of women in American history, in 1893, it was joined by anti-saloon league with pressed to abolish alcohol and places where it was consumed and led to the 18th amendment |
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| Huge role in the social-justice movement. They were women’s rights activists. |
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| National Association of Colored Women |
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| 1st black sponsored social-service agency in the nation in 1895 |
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| General Federation of Women’s Clubs |
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| Transferred literacy meeting into social action gatherings. It drew attention to women’s concerns for social reform |
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| National Woman Suffrage Association |
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| Suffrage organization that merged in 1890 with the American Woman Suffrage Association and led to the Nation American Woman Suffrage Association |
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| American Woman Suffrage Association |
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| Suffrage organization that merged in 1890 with the National Woman Suffrage Association and led to the Nation American Woman Suffrage Association |
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| 1900 became the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association |
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| Member of the congressional union was militant about women suffrage |
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| National Birth Control League |
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| Led by Margaret Sanger 1921. It broadened the birth control movement base beyond socialists and feminists. It pushed laws to accept birth control. It held clinics and conferences to educate the public. |
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| A pill that prevented pregnancy |
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| headed national association of colored women |
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| Part of Association for Colored Women. Also protested when a black woman was rejected from a meeting of the GFWC black womans rights activist |
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