Women's Christian Temperance Union

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Women's_Christian_Temperance_Union

GPTKB entity

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:organization
gptkbp:abbreviation	gptkb:WCTU
gptkbp:affiliatedWith	gptkb:World's_Woman's_Christian_Temperance_Union
gptkbp:color	white ribbon
gptkbp:focus	education public health Christian values women's suffrage prison reform temperance movement prohibition labor reform social purity
gptkbp:founded	1874
gptkbp:foundedIn	gptkb:Cleveland,_Ohio,_United_States
gptkbp:headquarters	gptkb:Evanston,_Illinois,_United_States
gptkbp:historicalSignificance	early advocate for women's rights major force in temperance movement influential in passage of Prohibition influential in women's suffrage movement
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Women's Christian Temperance Union
gptkbp:membership	open to women
gptkbp:motto	gptkb:For_God_and_Home_and_Every_Land
gptkbp:notable_campaign	anti-alcohol education support for 18th Amendment support for 19th Amendment
gptkbp:notableLeader	gptkb:Frances_Willard gptkb:Lillian_M._N._Stevens gptkb:Annie_Wittenmyer
gptkbp:notableMember	gptkb:Mary_Allen_West gptkb:Kate_Sheppard gptkb:Leah_D._Widtsoe gptkb:Agnes_Slack gptkb:Clara_Hoffman gptkb:Elizabeth_Wheeler_Andrew gptkb:Frances_E._Townsley gptkb:Jessie_Ackermann gptkb:Margaret_Bright_Lucas gptkb:Matilda_Carse gptkb:Frances_Willard gptkb:Ida_B._Wise_Smith gptkb:Lillian_M._N._Stevens gptkb:Mary_Clement_Leavitt gptkb:Mary_Hunt gptkb:Annie_Wittenmyer
gptkbp:notablePublication	gptkb:The_Union_Signal
gptkbp:parentOrganization	gptkb:World's_Woman's_Christian_Temperance_Union
gptkbp:purpose	promote temperance promote social reform
gptkbp:regionServed	gptkb:United_States international
gptkbp:website	https://www.wctu.org/
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:American_women's_rights_movement gptkb:Temperance_movement gptkb:Caroline_Still_Anderson gptkb:Prohibition_in_the_United_States gptkb:Josephine_Beall_Willson_Bruce
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6