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Size | 28 items. |
Abstract | The Chapel Hill Business and Professional Women's Club held its first meeting on 12 May 1943. The club was affiliated with the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. and with the North Carolina State Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. The collection contains the records of the Chapel Hill Business and Professional Women's Club of North Carolina. Records include by-laws, minutes of the club's meetings, minutes of the executive committee's meetings, membership rolls, lists of officers, resolutions, and 1942 guidelines from the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. |
Creator | Business and Professional Women's Club of Chapel Hill, N.C. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Laura Clark Brown, December 2012
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The Chapel Hill Business and Professional Women's Club held its first meeting on 12 May 1943. The club was affiliated with the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. and with the North Carolina State Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. The stated objective of the club was "to clarify thinking and to become more articulate on social, economic and political questions in line with the National objective which reads: 'We seek to vitalize the processes of democracy that all people may enjoy the basic satisfaction of life in a world at peace.'"
At the second meeting on 26 May 1943, members discussed what the club could contribute to the war effort, especially in the area of "woman power" and what could be done to keep talented women from leaving the southeast in pursuit of more opportunities and higher salaries in other parts of the country. The club sought to address inequities in salaries and wages, working conditions, and opportunities for women in the South and particularly in Orange County, N.C. and to instill a "greater sense of civic responsibility" in women. Equal pay for equal work was a priority.
Charter members held a variety of positions including secretary, typist, clerk, teacher, professor, physician, public health nurse, librarian, bookkeeper, and home maker. Social science researcher Guion Griffis Johnson and photographer Bayard Wooten were among the notable charter members.
Back to TopThe collection contains the records of the Chapel Hill Business and Professional Women's Club of North Carolina. Records include by-laws, minutes of the club's meetings, minutes of the executive committee's meetings, membership rolls, lists of officers, resolutions, and 1942 guidelines from the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc.
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Records, 1942-1944; 1948 |