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When clubwomen encountered children in poorhouses and jails, they saw future paupers and criminals. The 1891 children’s illustration below depicts the doomed trajectory of troublesome children. The CWC tried to intervene in the process and place…

At the dawn of the Progressive Era, clubwomen increasingly studied the causes and solutions to delinquency. In particular, the CWC sought to understand the downfall of young women in the city. Clubwomen frequently emphasized the necessity of…

Just as clubwomen believed in the importance of a productive occupation for young women, they were similarly concerned that young people engage in respectable entertainment. They were particularly concerned with the leisure activities of working…

In "Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure," Nan Enstad reveals how working women—the shop girls who caused CWC members great concern—created a distinct culture expressed through fashion and consumption of popular amusements. This working class…

Transcription: "First of all, the obvious one, it was buttressing the Roman Catholic tradition, you could say that whether your father was a judge or whether your father was a bricklayer. Everybody there with few exceptions…But in the main it was…

Transcription: "Just think of this: it’s 1969, ’70, ’71. It’s partly a reflection of the sixties. You’ve got students who are saying, you know, ‘Why do I have to take these particular courses, in this particular order? I can learn better if you just…

Transcription: "We used to have a pretty rigid dress code. No jeans, none of that kind of thing. In fact, the women who used to live in the residence hall could not even go to the dining hall in jeans or slacks. They had to wear dresses all the time.…

Transcription: "It was announced to the student body that some of their activity fee would go to help pay for the bus going to Selma. A group of anti-black, against the black movement, threatened to throw themselves across the parking place so the…

Transcription: "I had always assigned African American kids with white kids. I just took it for granted; and they had friendship, etc. When Martin Luther King was shot the black students from Coffey Hall disappeared over into Northland with black…

Transcription: "As we got more minority students, we began to change. We had our own problems on campus in 1975, ’76, when sort of the ‘black revolution’ took place. I was part of it. We had a woman, we’re good friends today, was director of the…