• The Illinois Woman's Press Association (IWPA) is an Illinois-based organization of professional women and men pursuing careers across the communications...
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  • the association had over 300 members. Regional chapters included the Illinois Woman's Press Association (still in existence), the New England Woman's Press...
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  • Wendell Holmes Jr. Judson served as the 15th president of the Illinois Woman's Press Association from June 1923 until June 1925. She wrote pieces that appeared...
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  • Federation of Press Women (NFPW) was organized May 6, 1937, when Helen Miller Malloch and other members of the Illinois Woman's Press Association (IWPA organized...
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  • journalist, newspaper editor; co-organizer/president of the Michigan Woman's Press Association; associate editor of the Grand Traverse Herald; writer for the...
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    Carrie Ashton Johnson (category Woman's Christian Temperance Union people)
    affiliated with the Illinois Woman's Press Association for five decades. She was also a co-founder of the Children's Home of Rockford, Illinois. Johnson died...
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  • States, by a merger of the National Federation of Afro-American Women, the Woman's Era Club of Boston, and the Colored Women's League of Washington, DC, at...
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  • (1991). Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective 1880-1930. University of North Carolina Press. p...
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    Frances Willard (category Presidents of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union)
    Benschoten (Willard's first secretary) and 43 others to found the Illinois Woman's Press Association. In 1879, she sought and successfully obtained presidency...
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    establish a press association. McBride had already been involved in the founding of the Illinois Woman's Press Association and the National Woman's Press Association...
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    Mary Allen West (category Presidents of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union)
    Woman's Publication Association. She was the first president of the Illinois Woman's Press Association, a member of the Chicago Woman's Club, and director...
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    Mary Crowell Van Benschoten (category Writers from Evanston, Illinois)
    a member of the Illinois Press Association and of the Chicago Woman's Club. She served as one of the managers of the Chicago Woman's Exchange. She was...
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    Frances Augusta Conant (category Journalists from Illinois)
    businesswoman. She was the founder and principal promoter of the Illinois Woman's Press Association (IWPA). Conant died in 1903. Frances Augusta Hemingway was...
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  • Jan Lisa Huttner received a "Silver Feather" award from the Illinois Woman's Press Association commending her for her work on the 2009 Oscar controversy...
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  • Literature. Reed served two terms as the president of the Illinois Woman's Press Association 1894 (January) until 1896 (June) and 1902 (June) until 1904...
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    educational options for all young people. The Woman's City Club worked with the Chicago Woman's Club and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae to create a Bureau...
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    There was a decline in public support for the idea of "woman's sphere", the belief that a woman's place was in the home and that she should not be involved...
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    American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) throughout Illinois that year, the Illinois Women Remonstrants restructured into the Illinois Association Opposed...
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    Association Media bias in the United States List of American print journalists National Federation of Press Women Illinois Woman's Press Association Irish...
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    Helen Ekin Starrett (category Suffragists from Illinois)
    Magazine (1880–83, Chicago). She served as president of the Illinois Woman's Press Association (1893–1894), and was the author of several works. Helen Martha...
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    Silver Feather Awards on three separate occasions from the Illinois Woman's Press Association. In 2005, she also received a first place certificate for...
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  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union's Minutes of the National Woman's Christian Temperannce Union, at the Sixteenth Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois,...
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    women's suffrage. The National Woman's Party broke from the much larger National American Woman Suffrage Association, which had focused on attempting...
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    the Illinois Woman's Press Association, the Ohio Woman's Press Association, the Southern Woman's Press Association, and the New England Woman's Press Association...
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    Julia Holmes Smith (category Leaders of the University of Illinois)
    she co-founded the Illinois Woman's Press Association in her home. She was a founding member of the Queen Isabella Association. She was on the board...
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    The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869, to work for women's suffrage in the United States. Its main leaders were Susan...
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    American Pen Women, the Illinois Woman's Press Association and the Gary Women's Press Club. She served on the Indiana and Illinois state boards of the Federation...
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    trademark. He gave a lecture on newspaper illustration to the Illinois Woman's Press Association in 1910, and with other newspaper cartoonists contributed...
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    Mary Livermore (category American Woman Suffrage Association activists)
    Daughters? Superfluous Women, and Other Lectures; and My Story of the War. A Woman's Narrative of Four Years' Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army...
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  • World's Fair. She joined the Illinois Woman's Press Association and, when founded in 1937, the National Federation of Press Women. Willets-Burnham promoted...
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