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Designated PHMC. June 19, 1997 [1] The New Century Guild, now the New Century Trust, is an historic women's support organization which is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1882, it is one of the oldest and largest organizations devoted to meeting the needs of women in the labor force. From its founding, the organization's ...
December 5: The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends creates an Equal Rights Association. [10] 1903. November 7: State women's suffrage convention is held in Philadelphia. [10] 1904. The Allegheny County Equal Rights Association (ACERA) is created. [11] November 3–5: The state suffrage convention is held in Easton.
The first women's rights convention in the state was organized by Quakers and held in Chester County in 1852. Philadelphia would host the fifth National Women's Rights Convention in 1854. Later years saw suffragists forming a statewide group, the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association (PWSA), and other smaller groups throughout the state.
Website. www .phila .gov. Philadelphia County is the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the 24th-most populous county in the nation. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 1,603,797. [1] Its county seat is Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city. The county is part of the Southeast Pennsylvania region of the state.
At the 2010 census, there were 1,526,006 people, 590,071 households, and 352,272 families residing in the consolidated city-county of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The population density was 4,337.3/km 2 (11,233.6/mi 2). There were 661,958 housing units at an average density of 1,891.9/km 2 (4,900.1/mi 2).
Women's Way is a grantmaking, advocacy, and education 501 (c) (3) status nonprofit that deals with current issues facing women and girls in the greater Philadelphia region. [1] Several women-focused nonprofits formed the organization in the late-1970s in response to financial struggles. The causes they served at the time were controversial and ...
The Philadelphia LGBT community has roots as far back as the 1930s and 1940s. Early gay networks would meet privately at underground house parties and other private venues within Center City, West Philadelphia, and Germantown. [1] In tandem with the substantial post-WWII expansion of American suburbia, which resulted in white-collar families ...
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, created in 1869. Woman Suffrage Party of Chester County. Woman Suffrage Society of Philadelphia, formed in 1892. Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Women's Suffrage Society of Monroe County. Suffragists. Suffragists marching in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, c. 1917 Lida Stokes Adams.