Frances Willard

Frances Willard is best known for her presidency of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Rather than a 19th century version of "just say no," the WCTU, under Willard's leadership, was an advocate of women's rights and women's choices, as well as an advocate of protecting women who chose to be homemakers and mothers as their primary role. The WCTU was the first national women's organization in America (other organizations, even for women's rights, had significant male membership). Read more:

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