Frances Willard, Women's Suffragist
Title
Frances Willard, Women's Suffragist
Description
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839 – 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution. Willard became the national president of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, or WWCTU, in 1879, and remained president for 19 years. She developed the slogan "Do everything" for the women of the WCTU to incite lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publication, and education. Her vision progressed to include federal aid to education, free school lunches, unions for workers, the eight-hour work day, work relief for the poor, municipal sanitation and boards of health, national transportation, strong anti-rape laws, and protections against child abuse
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839 – 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution. Willard became the national president of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, or WWCTU, in 1879, and remained president for 19 years. She developed the slogan "Do everything" for the women of the WCTU to incite lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publication, and education. Her vision progressed to include federal aid to education, free school lunches, unions for workers, the eight-hour work day, work relief for the poor, municipal sanitation and boards of health, national transportation, strong anti-rape laws, and protections against child abuse
Creator
Library of Congress
Date
Unknown
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Rights
Source: Frances Willard (suffragist). (2012, October 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:25, October 12, 2012, from http://bit.ly/SV7Kfi
Publisher
Library of Congress
Contributor
Library of Congress
Format
Medium: Photograph
Language
English
Type
Figures
Identifier
Frances Willard, Women, Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage, Education, Unions, Consumer Protection
Coverage
Historic
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Collection
Reference
Library of Congress, Frances Willard, Women's Suffragist, Library of Congress, Unknown
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Library of Congress, “Frances Willard, Women's Suffragist,” Virtual Museum of Public Service, accessed April 25, 2024, https://vmps.omeka.net/items/show/282.