The club movement is an American women's social movement that started in the mid-19th century and spread throughout the United States. It established the idea that women had a moral duty and responsib
Five women officers of the Women's League in Newport, Rhode Island, c. 1899
The headquarters of the Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs in Minneapolis, c. 1920
American Woman's League Founder's Chapter membership pin, image designed by George Julian Zolnay, awarded to members who sent in two new applicants for full membership and $5 in subscriptions by Christmas 1909.
Eartha White (center, first row) is pictured with delegates at the State Meeting of the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of Jacksonville, at Palatka, Florida – May 16, 1915.
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Sorosis was the first professional women's club in the United States. It was established in March 1868 in New York City by Jane Cunningham Croly.
Women's club movement in the United States
…women's clubs created and continue to publish their own journals and newsletters. Prior to the founding of the first Progressive era women's clubs, Sorosis and the New England Women's Club, most organizations for women were auxiliaries of groups for men or were church-related. Jane Cunningham Croly of the…
Sorosis Club rules in 1869