Era Club of New Orleans
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The Era Club of New Orleans was a woman's club in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was one of the largest woman's clubs in the southern United States.[1] The club did charitable works, advocated for reform and for women's suffrage.
The Era Club was founded in 1896 by Evelyn W. Ordway and was affiliated with the Portia Club.[2] The name was really an acronym, standing for the "Equal Rights for All."[3] The Era Club worked for women's suffrage in Louisiana and also towards improvements in education, sanitation and other civic matters.[4] The club also raised money for charities and was involved in campaigning against child labor.[5] The Era Club was also the only organization in New Orleans advocating for women's suffrage between 1900 and 1913.[5]
Notable members
- Elizabeth Bass[6]
- Jean Gordon[7]
- Kate M. Gordon, served as president[8]
- Dr. Sara T. Mayo[9]
- Evelyn Walton Ordway
References
- ↑ Segrave, Kerry (2016). The Hatpin Menace: American Women Armed and Fashionable, 1887–1920. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 169. ISBN 9781476622170.
- ↑ "Clubs and Kindred Organizations". Historical New Orleans. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ↑ Smith, Armantine (Winter 2002). "The History of the Woman's Suffrage Movement in Louisiana". Louisiana Law Review. 62 (2): 538.
- ↑ "Women to Vote in New Orleans". Woman's Column. Vol. 11, no. 2. 28 January 1898. p. 2. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- 1 2 McConnaughy, Corrine M. (2013). The Woman Suffrage Movement in America: A Reassessment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 180. ISBN 9781107013667.
- ↑ "Era Club's Year Closes". The Times-Democrat. 28 May 1905. Retrieved 2018-03-31 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Shepherd, Samuel C. (2005). "In Pursuit of Louisiana Progressives". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 46 (4): 396. JSTOR 4234136.
- ↑ Harper, Ida Husted, ed. (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 5. National American Woman Suffrage Association. p. 17.
- ↑ "Dr. Sara Mayo – City Council Street Renaming Commission". Archived from the original on 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2021-05-12.