Woman's Christian Temperance Union

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in North America grew out of the 1873 Women's Crusades and Praying Bands of Hillsboro, Ohio. The Hillsboro women—often aggrieved wives of drunkards—banded together to visit local saloons, where they sang hymns, dropped to their ...

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