Middletown Township Historical Society's Middletown Mondays lecture series
continues its commemoration of WWI with
ANNA HOWARD SHAW AND HER WOMEN WORKING DURING WORLD WAR I
by Nancy Webster, Independent Scholar
Monday, March 19 at 7:00 p.m.
at Lima Estates, 411 North Middletown Road, Media, PA
Free and open to the public, no registration required.
Join us for this special Women’s History Month program on the Reverend Doctor Anna Howard Shaw, minister, physician, ardent feminist, masterful orator and resident of Moylan, PA. Early in her career Dr. Shaw worked to improve individual morality by ministering at two churches while earning a medical degree but she never practiced medicine. Instead, she took up the crusade for temperance and women’s suffrage. During World War I, she became chair of the Woman’s Committee of the United States Council of National Defense, coordinating women’s contributions to the war effort. For this work she became the first woman to earn the Distinguished Service Medal. At the end of the war, at the request of President Wilson and former President Taft, she lectured in the U.S. and Europe in support of world peace and the League of Nations. She died in July, 1919, just before the Women’s Suffrage Amendment was ratified.
Comments