Source

State Archives of Florida, Collection M98-6

Description

Program for the installation dinner for the Miami Business and Professional Women's Club's new officers. The program includes the names of incoming and outgoing officers and a list of past club presidents.

Date

1956-05-14

Creator

Business and Professional Women's Club of Miami

Format

Programs (documents)

Coverage

Postwar Florida (1945-1968)

Topic

Business and Industry

Subjects

Clubs -- Florida -- Miami-Dade County -- Miami
Dinners and dining
GFWC Florida Federation of Women's Clubs
Seven Seas Restaurant (Miami, Fla.)
Women -- Florida -- Societies and clubs

Geographic Term

Miami
Miami-Dade County

General Note

The Miami Business and Professional Women’s Club was organized as the Miami Business Women’s League in February 1916 with Marjory Stoneman Douglas as one of its founding members and the club’s first president. There were about 25 women at the first meeting. The league was renamed the Miami Business and Professional Women’s Club in 1919 when the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs was formed. The Miami Business and Professional Women’s Club opened its own cafeteria and a facility to provide services to working women; helped provide scholarships to young women; and supported legislation focused on women, including the Married Women’s Separate Property Act in 1943 and the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.