The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."

Dec 29, 2018 · The last line of an anonymous poem from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) became a popular mantra in the efforts by prohibitionists to stop all sales of alcoholic beverages in the United States: It seemingly was a threat by young women to their young men to stay away from the booze or skip the kissing routine.

Those scrapbooks, starting in 1935 through 1939, reveal page after page of mostly news articles about the Union, painstakingly clipped from local and some statewide newspapers. The articles also address issues of WCTU concern, especially the liquor industry.

Woman's Christian Temperance Union is organized Mother's Love. We "Do Everything" - educate, legislate, and advocate - to make the world a better place.

The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WWCTU) began in 1883. The U.S. WCTU organized it to coordinate its chapters (unions) around the world.

Jul 5, 2018 · WCTU is the well-known acronym of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Lizzie had another connection to the WCTU in addition to being a member in good standing—the Fall River branch of the organization rented space in …

Lily May Kirk est née à Auckland, en Nouvelle-Zélande, le 29 mars 1866.Elle est la fille de Sarah Jane Mattocks et de Thomas Kirk, un géomètre qui devient l'un des premiers professeurs au Victoria University College et le premier conservateur en chef des forêts d'État de Nouvelle-Zélande [2].Elle reçoit son éducation à la Terrace School …

Mar 28, 2011 · Highly religious suffrage movement that was influential in the outlaw of prostitution, illegal drug use, and were key in the Prohibition.

In their fight to create an alcohol and drug-free society, the WCTU traveled the country dedicating elaborate “temperance fountains” in hopes that drinkers would opt for clean, cold water instead of visiting the local saloon.

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), American temperance organization, founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, in response to the ‘Woman’s Crusade,’ a series of temperance demonstrations that swept through New York and much of the Midwest in 1873–74.