Date of Award

Spring 1986

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Committee Director

D. Alan Harris

Committee Member

James R. Sweeney

Committee Member

Douglas Greene

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.H47S51

Abstract

Frances E. Willard (1839-98) was the president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1879 until her death and one of the foremost temperance advocates of her time. This study explores the impact of Willard's first three tours of the South on that region's temperance movement and southern women, as well as on inter-sectional reconciliation after Reconstruction. The study concludes that Willard's efforts to organize W.C.T.U. chapters in the South were largely successful. Willard and her southern collaborators contributed greatly to a resurgence of the southern temperance movement and the involvement of southern women in community activities, but temperance advocacy had a negligible impact on North-South reconciliation.

The study's principal documentary sources are the W.C.T.U. microfilm collection at the Ohio Historical Society, Willard's diary of the 1881 tour and other accounts of observers both within and outside the W.C.T.U.

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DOI

10.25777/f1fj-cp47

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