you mightht have had a grandmotr part of the wctu. you think ofch the lips that toh liquor never touch mine.or they were known for their big white ribbons. the lady who was the leader for many years was francis willard. speaking and writing.vi i'm convinced they could have lead the d-day invasion. anyways anything they e could do to empower women. the age of sexual content from 10:00 to 16. this happened in the state of 1895. my favorite person in the book was the member of the wctu, a radical member carry. she was born in kentucky during the civilng war. her first was a alcoholic doctor.e she must have been pretty naive shdidn't u realize he was a druy until after they were married. he was dead within a year leaving her withea a small baby. living with her second husband in kansas and decided, the lord told her she needed to start on a mission to destroy saloon. so, she ramped up her weapon of choice. she went to a saloon, i'm sorry the methodist minister's wife to thes top of the voices breaking mirrors and windows. just wrecking th

was a member of the wctu a radical member named carrie a nation? kerry a million nation she was born in kentucky about the during the civil war and she her first husband was a very alcoholic doctor. she must have been pretty naive because she didn't realize he was a drunk until after they married he was dead in a year leaving her with a small baby and she woke up one year about at age 52 living with her second husband in medicine lodge, kansas and decided that the lord had told her she needed to start on a mission to destroy saloons. so she wrapped up her weapon of choice that day was rocks and she in the methodist minister went to a saloon. i'm sorry the methodist minister's wife with a hand organ, you know yelling hymns at the top of their voices throwing the rocks breaking mirrors breaking windows. just wrecking the place. and eventually they wiped out all the saloons of medicine lodge. i mean cancer supposed to be a dry state but in practice it wasn't and then she moved on to bigger and better things bigger and better towns and more effective w

about 1874 and organization was started called the women christian p temperance union, wctu.. there maybe people here like me who had a grandmother who was a member of the wctu, you always think of the lips that touch liquor will never touch my motto. they had others but they were known for their big white ribbons. the lady who was the leader for many years wass frances willard who was just a genius at organizing and speaking and writing and persuasion. i'm really convinced she could've led the d-day invasion with much less loss of life. they were also a very much allid with the suffragists, and anything they could do to empower women. one of their causes was to raise the age of sexual consent from ten to 16, which finally happened in my state of south carolina in 1895. my favorite person in the book was a member of the wctu, a radical member, named carry a nation. she was born in kentucky during the civil war and her first husband was a very alcoholic doctor. she must've been pretty naÏve because she didn't realize he was a drunk until after they married. he was dead and in t

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contrary to its image the wctu still one of the largest and most important political organizations in american history, gave tens of thousands of women aipac from the home into the larger world of personal growth -- a path -- and politics. i strongly influencing public policy before women could even vote, the wctu strengthened their claim to the rights of full citizenship. there were many, many, many more women in the temperance movement than in the suffrage movement. it's really a neglected area of american history, probably because it was dominated by women. the western western sufn stereotyped fighter eastern counterpart as white, but a surprising number of were women of color. for native americans, hispanic, black and asian women, political activism first and foremost meant ensuring their families survival amidst the systemic racism that was just as bad in the west as in the east. many of the wes first chinese women had been sold back in china by their indigent parents or kidnapped to become sex slaves in california, yet polly who we see here, escaped from sexual slavery. she marr

. >> francis, the president of the wctu who we talked about, she was known as, she's now described as the eleanor roosevelt of her day. she was a real fireball come very much like eleanor roosevelt unlike eleanor roosevelt ship relationships with men and women. >> okay, thank you. what was the background and incentive for men, , were there any, who championed women struggle for achievement and equality? >> you know, that's a really good question, and the work enormous number of good guys in the west, demonstrably more than in the east or the south, particularly the south, not so many men there. -- not submitting suffragist men there. one man said my wife is a smart as any man and smarter than most, like there's just a sense especially in this settler society where everybody was pitching in. the women were working as hard as the men and doing a lot of the stuff the men did and it was just in that kind of very practical like medic culture, like why would you say that she couldn't vote when she does everything that i do? so i think there was real general fairness. like i mentioned in the