Women's History Consortium Theme
Women's Clubs and Organizations
Club Journal of Colored Women's Federation
of Washington and Jurisdiction, 1922-1925
A recent addition to the Women's History Consortium Collection is the
Club Journal of Colored Women's Federation of Washington and Jurisdiction, 1922-1925
.
Founded in 1917, this organization was known by various names, including the Washington
State Federation
of Colored Women’s Clubs, the Colored Women’s Federation of Washington and Jurisdiction
and, in later years, the Washington State Association of Colored Women. Prominent members
included Nettie Asberry, a founder of the Tacoma Branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People and a member of the Progressive Mothers'
Club of Tacoma and the Tacoma Inter-Racial Council.
100 Years 100 Women 1889-1989. Yakima County, Washington
A recent addition to the Women's History Consortium Collection is the
100 Years 100 Women 1889-1989. Yakima County, Washington
.
100 Years 100 Women 1889-1989. Yakima County, Washington. In 1984 the General Federation of Women's Clubs opened a Women's History and Resource Center in Washington D.C. to help commemorate Women's History Week. Clubs across the country were asked to contribute histories. In Yakima County, clubs, granges, community organizations and individuals were invited to nominate, with a written history, women to be honored. This book is a product of those nominations.
Dr. Karen Blair on Women's Clubs
In this essay, Dr. Blair looks at how the study of the history of Washington State's
women's organizations provides a useful vehicle for understanding women's contributions
to our past. The essay outlines how women who
settled in the Pacific Northwest were quick to establish voluntary associations
for self-improvement, charitable work, and civic reform, especially from the
mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s.
A History of Clubs (audio presentation)
Dr. Karen Blair, noted authority on Women's Clubs nationally and in the Northwest, gave this
one hour presentation on the history of the development of women's clubs at the Washington
State Capitol Museum in March of 2008. Dr. Blair's presentation is
reproduced here in four segments.
American Association of University Women
The history of the AAUW stretches back to 1881. On January 27, 1927, a group of
women of Washington state, at the invitation of the then AAUW Cowlitz County Branch,
gathered in Longview to form a Washington Division of AAUW. The movement to form a
state organization was born from the suggestion of the national organization
because Washington already had more than ten active branches by 1927.
Utsalady Ladies Relief Club
Celebrated its 100th anniversary on March 8, 2008
This profile of the
Utsalady Ladies Relief Club, a longtime Camano Island women's club,
looks at the 100th anniversary of this organization on March 8, 2008. The Ladies Relief Club
building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.