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History of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs &
the California Federation of Women’s Clubs
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Our history had it’s roots with the Women’s movements such as suffrage, abolition, and temperance
• In 1868, our founder Jane Cunningham Croly, whose pen name was Jennie June, a newspaper reporter was denied admittance to a men’s Press club event because she was a woman
• Mrs. Croly decided to start her own club in New York, called Sorosis
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What happened next?
Mrs. Croly convened a national convention of Women’s Clubs from all over the USA in 1889 in Seneca Falls
The General Federation of Women’s Club was formed in 1890
• Jennie June started a movement of a vast, untapped and unorganized sisterhood of capable of women that would reshape American society
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Phoebe Hearst from the Century Club in San
Francisco is elected from the floor as the first GFWC
Treasurer
California becomes part of the General
Federation of Women’s Clubs,
GFWC
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The California Federation of Women’s Clubs is Born
January 1900 the CFWC is formed
• Becoming the 37th State to Join the GFWC• The Motto is “Strength United is
Stronger”• There are 264 Clubs in the CFWC
today
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One of the first projects was to mark the El Camino Real with Mission Bells
• The CFWC in June 1902 lead by Mrs. Forbes & Mrs. Olney in partnership with the Native Daughters of the Golden West implemented the Mission Bell project
• The road was not paved at this time
• 158 bells were installed by 1915
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The GFWC & CFWC fight for the passage of The Pure Food & Drug Act
Members of the GFWC & the CFWC ”spearhead a letter and telegram writing campaign” to which historians attribute the passing of the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906
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The CFWC helps to establish The Juvenile Court System
• The Friday Morning Women’s Club with 1,000 members, largest club on the west coast, politically supported a new court system
• Miriam Van Waters chaired the Juvenile Court division of the CFWC
• Caroline Severance and the Los Angles Women’s Club campaigned for the California Court System
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The CFWC & the white line on our roads
• June McCarroll is run off the road by a truck while driving near Indio
• She paints a white line down the road by herself when no one will listen to her idea
• The Indio Women’s Club & the CFWC wage a letter writing campaign
• In 1924 the California Highway Commission paints white lines on 3,500 miles of road at a cost of $163,000
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What have we done Since 9-
11?
• By 2004 we, the members of GFWC all over the country had raised $180,000
• We sent this money to New York City’s Fire Department to purchase one fully equipped ambulance with our GFWC logo on the side
• Judy Lutz, the GFWC International President dedicates this ambulance from all the members of the GFWC in honor of all the men & women who lost their lives on September 11, 2001
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We have worked to fill our libraries with books
The GFWC started about 75% of the nation’s libraries
Our clubs started the first mobile & small libraries
We have raised and donated 13.5 million dollars worth of books to libraries from 1997 to about 2003 with our libraries 2000 project
The CFWC & other state federations are continuing to donate books to public and school libraries everywhere
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Come be a part of something very
special, The California Federation of
Women’s Clubs
Contact us at
www.cfwc.org
Find us on face book at: GFWC California Federation of Women’s Clubs
email us at: [email protected]