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When Powerful Women Came to Town
2014
Overview
Spring arrived, and with it a host of famous women, drawn to New Orleans by the chance to speak to broad new audiences about the causes of their lives. In the Woman’s Department, workers of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union exhibited clear solidarity of purpose as they employed clever tactics to draw attention to their mission. Their displays could be seen a long distance away because of shining satin banners that blazed with the watchword and “musical refrain of the Temperance Woman’s working song: ‘For God and Home and Native Land.’” The group’s central hexagonal pavilion was “one of the
