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Blurb: “The strength of women in our society has been the ever-present, but the often quiet engine that kept the country progressing -- from Revolutionary War nurses to pioneer women to the much-needed factory workers during World Wars I and II.
This book will introduce you to the not-so-quiet women who chose to step up and lead the way to create a legacy of organizations and ideas that still benefit the greater Miami Valley community and your lives to this day. It's important to understand that these women lived in a time when very few had more than high school education, did not work outside the home, and until 1920, could not even vote.
And yet, the women you will meet on these pages still had the intelligence and the desire to make their world better. They also understood that there was great power in their ability to build relationships with each other and join forces to make good things happen. They worked on things like voting rights for women, labor problems, urbanization issues, immigration, migration, and corruption in the government. Sound familiar? Guess what—all of these issues are still with us today!
One of the first things these women also did was to find a place where they could call home, a place to meet and work together and support one another. The beautiful and graceful building at 225 N. Ludlow Street still stands today. It is a testament to over 100 years of the dedicated members of the Dayton Woman's Club maintaining it for generations of empowered women (and men) to support one another and join forces to make things happen.”