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Article: General Federation of Women's Clubs
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GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS
GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS.
The GFWC was founded in 1890 at the initiative of newspaperwoman Jane ("Jennie June")Cunningham Croly at a meeting in New York City of representatives from more than sixty women's clubs from around the country. For several decades before, women in the United States had been forming voluntary organizations such as literary clubs, local and municipal improvement clubs, suffrage groups, and women's professional, religious, and ethnic organizations. The GFWC was to be an organizational umbrella under which all types of women's organizations could gather to discuss and identify common concerns and work together to ...