The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." [1] .

2018年12月29日 · The last line of an anonymous poem from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) became a popular mantra in the efforts by prohibitionists to stop all sales of alcoholic beverages in the United States: It seemingly was a threat by young women to their young men to stay away from the booze or skip the kissing routine.

Organized in 1874 the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was one of the most important of all temperance organizations. It was very powerful and effective in promoting prohibition, and by the end of WW1 the USA had introduced prohibition. The movement’s popularity weakened in the 1930s.

2016年6月9日 · In Millie (Pendleton Petticoats Book 7), the heroine is the leader of the local Women's Christian Temperance Union. The WCTU was founded in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. After Frances Willard took over leadership in 1879, guiding the WCTU to become one of the largest and most influential women’s groups of the century.

2010年3月23日 · The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. After Frances Willard took over leadership in 1879, the WCTU became one of the largest and most...

The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WWCTU) began in 1883. The U.S. WCTU organized it to coordinate its chapters (unions) around the world.

2022年2月6日 · The temperance movement had a colossal influence on politics and society that culminated in the unsuccessful prohibition of alcohol through the 18th amendment to our Constitution from 1920 to 1933. An invitation postcard to a New England WCTU meeting.

Hello! My name is Shannon Fleischman and I am a Museum Curator with the Arizona Historical Society. Today I'm going to be talking about the WCTU Banner on di...

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Protesting the endorsement of the Prohibition party, the league split from the national and state Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1885 and added Non-Partisan to its name. The Non-Partisan National WCTU organized in Cleveland in Jan. 1890, and by 1892 was active in 21 states and the District of Columbia.