Yes, it still is the name of the organization, still in Evanston, Illinois.  (I didn't see it spelled out in this thread, though.)  As for Women's Temperance Crusades, I reference Jack Blocker's work on this and primary sources I saw but will be more attentive to those primary sources (at least the organizational sources, as the press was not reliable).

Because, yes, it did matter to the women then, as I also saw in primary sources.   Btw, similarly, many secondary sources also want to add the possessive as well as pluralize  the woman suffrage movement and National American Woman Suffrage Association, as well as incorrectly pluralize the National Woman's Party (lso still extant).  So thank you for making this point, and may every editor of every history text be listening. :-)

Genevieve G. McBride
Associate Professor of History
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:17 PM, K. Austin Kerr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I observe once again a mistake.  The name of the WCTU was (and, I think,
still is) the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.  I have not looked at
this matter for some decades now, but as I recall the choice of the
possessive "Woman's Crusade" and Woman's Christian Temperance Union was
not accidental.  It meant something important to the organizers,
leaders, and, presumably, members.

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Ohio State University
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