How Women Saved the CityU of Minnesota Press |
Contents
Voluntary Vernacular | 1 |
Why Cities Needed Saving | 30 |
Sacred and Secular Organizational Ideologies | 63 |
Voluntary Associations with an Urban Presence | 87 |
New York City Headquarters Smaller City Branches | 125 |
Boston the Cradle of Redemptive Places | 174 |
Men Build Chicagos Skyline Women Redeem the City | 205 |
How Women Saved the City | 236 |
Literature Review | 249 |
Organizational Charters | 255 |
Addresses of Redemptive Places for Boston New York City and Chicago | 261 |
Notes | 269 |
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activities African American American City architectural Association of Colored Avenue became black women boarding home boarding houses Booth Boston building Burroughs century Chicago Historical Society Church City Beautiful movement city's civic classes clean Cleveland College Settlements Association Colored Women Courtesy Chicago Historical created Daniel Burnham Denison House Dodge domestic East efforts established facilities fair Figure GFWC girls Henry Street Higginbotham 1993 Hotel Hull House Hunter immigrants industrial Jane Addams kindergarten kitchen labor League Library lived Mary ment mission municipal housekeeping neighborhood newcomers opened Park Philadelphia Phillis Wheatley planning playgrounds public baths race racial redemptive places reform residents rooms Ruffin Salvation Army Scudder settlement houses settlement workers Smith Social Gospel South End sponsored Street Settlement tion Union urban voluntary associations Washington WEIU William women volunteers Women's Christian Association women's clubs Woods and Kennedy World's Columbian Exposition York City YWCA YWCA and NACW