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iS4 FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
The \Voman s Club Movement and its Growth
in Georgia
BY MRS. NELLIE PETERS BLACK,
President Georgia State Federation of Woman's Clubs.
The Woman's Board of the great International Exposition of
1895, held in Atlanta 1896, invited a number of prominent women
of the United States to take part in a "Woman's Congress" in
the Spring of 1896. From the inspiration of this meeting grew
the forming of the Atlanta Woman's Club. The success of this
Club was so marked that other clubs were formed in Georgia,
and it was later deemed expedient to bring all these organizations
together in one body. Therefore the Georgia Federation of
Woman's Clubs was organized in the Fall of 1896.
From this small beginning has grown a wonderful organiza
tion which now in 1916, at the annual meeting in Macon, reported
340 clubs with an enrollment of 25,000 members, and a financial
record of an expenditure of 98,000 dollars during the year. We
doubt if any like sum of money has ever been spent more hon
estly and freer from graft, or more directly for the good of
humanity.
ROSE WALK, J. H. WADE PLANTATION, THOMAS COUNTY.