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National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
The National American Women Suffrage Association was formed in 1890 when the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Suffrage Association (AWSA) merged. They were previously opposing groups due to disagreement over strategy. Elizabeth Casy Stanton became the organization's first president however, Susan B. Anthony primarily led the organization from 1890 to 1892. She continued to lead it on her own until 1900. Her successors were Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw. -
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
The Women's Christian Temperance Union founded in 1874 is an organization dedicated to the Temperance Movement. It became one of the largest and most influential women's groups during this era. The organization focused on labor laws, prison reform, women's suffrage, public health, prostitution, international peace, and domestic violence. The organization began heavily focusing on supporting the 18th Amendment and alcohol prohibition during the early 1900s. The first presidents were Annie Wittenmyer and Frances Willard. -
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
The first Young Women's Christian Association was created in 1855 in England. Mary Jane Kinnaird founded the North London Home for nurses who traveled during the Crimean War. It combined with Emma Robarts Prayer Union in 1877 to form the YWCA.
The YWCA of the United States was founded in 1858. It is a nonprofit organization founded in the 1850s dedicated to empowering and supporting women. Current programs fight for racial equality, sexual violence support, health care, and child care. There are also efforts to provide education and job opportunities -
Young Women's Christian Association, Northern New Jersey Branch
The YWCA of Ridgewood and Hackensack was founded in the 1920s in relation to the YWCA of the United States. They combined in the 1990s to form the YWCA Bergen County. In the 2010s, the institution expanded to serve women in Passaic, Bergen, Morris, Essex, and Hudson counties. -
Enterprising Women
Pheobe Seham writes to Kim Hirsh thanking Hirsh for the article she wrote about the "Notebook for Enterprising Women on August 8, 1983. Seham also provides information about the Women's Rights Information Center to newspaper readers. -
Making it a Woman's World
An article by Kim Hirsh, a writer for the record, discusses Pheobe Seham, the Women's Rights Information Center, and the publication it founded called "New Directions." The article heavily focused on Seham's views on the current atmosphere of the women's rights movement and her involvement in it. -
Women's Rights Information Center
Pheobe Seham along with others began brainstorming the development of the Women's Rights Information Center in 1973. An abandoned building was bought in 1982 and the center was created by architect Eleanor Kendall Pettersen.
The WRIC creates programs to help women, such as job training, therapy, educational support, and helping victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence. -
Seham, Phoebe (1932-2019)
Phoebe Seham was the founder and board president of the Englewood Women's Rights Infomation Center. She was also a member of The Advisory Commission on the Status of Women in Bergan County. She was a member of the Women's Rights Committee of the New Jersey Bar Association.
She gave numerous lectures in local community centers and clubs about women's rights, violent crimes against women, discrimination, and women's suffrage.
She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1954. Her husband was Martin Charles Seham. She had four children, Amy, Jenny, Lee, and Lucy.Tags Feminism -
Women's Political Union of New Jersey, Englewood Branch
The Women's Political Union of New Jersey (WPU) was founded by Mina Van Winkle in 1909. The group tended to be on the more militant side. It was primarily based in Essex.
The Englewood Branch was organized as a separate branch of the Northern Valley Women's Political Union on March 27, 1914. -
Items Gathered to Enthuse the Suffragettes: Notes Telling of the Activity of Aggressive Leaders of the Movement. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Talks at Englewood
Newspaper discussing Anna Howard Shaw's visit to Englewood in December of 1914. She talked before a group that gathered at Englewood Theatre. This meeting was held by the Women's Political Club of Englewood.