BUREAU OF VOCATIONS BEGINS WORK FOR SEASON College Women’s Club Plans to Vigorously Assist in Forward Movements This Winter. FIGHT HARMFUL LEGISLATION Equal Suffrage League Members Will Give Their Views to Charter Change Committee at Meeting to Be Held on September 13. The organization formerly known as the Woman’s Occupational Bureau has resumed…
Continue Reading »Richmond School of Social Economy – Beginnings. October 1916 – July 1917 Alice W. Campbell The Richmond School of Social Economy was a training school for social workers established in Richmond, Virginia. The school changed its name and character over time, and in 1968 merged with the Medical College of Virginia to form Virginia Commonwealth…
Continue Reading »During the past twenty-seven years she has been engaged in religious work, especially devoting her time and talents to evangelistic and rescue work among girls and women. Countless numbers have thus found in her an appreciative and sympathizing friend and a guide and help in time of sorest need.
Continue Reading »JUVENILE COURT TRIED 410 CASES Disorderly Conduct with 182 Offenders, Constituted Largest Single Class. GIRL PROBLEM GROWS Regarded by Juvenile Protective Society as Its Most Difficult Task In a memorial, just from the press in pamphlet form, the Juvenile Protective Society of Virginia sums up for convenient reference the work accomplished by the juvenile…
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Continue Reading »Your Girl and Mine was the first large-scale suffrage film. Also referred to as a “photo-play,” the film was a collaboration between the National American Woman Suffrage Association and Selig Studio of Chicago. This article in The Times-Dispatch includes a lengthy synopsis of the film’s plot, which revolves around the trials of women and children who have few legal rights. Poverty, child labor, tenement housing, alcohol abuse, and child custody battles all play out in the course of the melodrama.
Continue Reading »Published on October 35, 1943, The Races of Mankind makes the argument that all the world’s humans are biologically the same. The pamphlet inspired a short training film that aimed to decrease racial tensions, The Brotherhood of Man.
Continue Reading »Primary sources related to tenement house reforms in the State of New York and the passage of the New York State Tenement House Act of 1901.
Continue Reading »A Negro Visitor in Negro Homes The Survey, July 12, 1919 (Vol. 42, Issue 15), 574. This article reports on the work of Lulu Maxwell, the first African American social worker with the Associated Charities of Minneapolis. Incidents of truancy and delinquency, along with Maxwell’s work with the elderly and orphans are discussed. …
Continue Reading »“Children Who Labor” was a collaboration between the Edison Company and the National Child Labor Committee, the nonprofit organization founded in 1904 and chartered by Congress to promote the rights of “children and youth as they relate to work and working.”
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