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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