How the mighty have fallen! Don't judge the original WCTUers by this generation. The first generation were among the leading reformers of their generation fighting for women's suffrage, educational reforms, anti-poverty, and in the South even recruited black women into their organization even if in segregated chapters. They formed alliances with the Socialist Party, the Popuulists, and the leading labor union of their time. Its longtime President Frances Willard even said that drunkenness was a natural outgrowth of poverty. Just because the Prohibitionists of our day behave in their self-righteous moralistic way does not mean that has always been the case.

yeah im doing a project on the wemons christian temperance union and i need names of people who were agansit it and who opposed it cause i cant find anything can anyone help any websites everything or anything you have information on will help alot.

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Lois Trader – Speaker and Author
Lois Trader is a speaker for http://internationalspeakers.com
Biography:
A two-time survivor of life-threatening disease, and a woman who has lived through bankruptcy - not only financially but physically, psychologically, and spiritually - Lois knows what it is to be bankrupt in every way. She has risen above these circumstances; her passion now is to give other women the courage to do the same. She has been a physically fit, successful, positive, driven young woman. She has been a speaker on women's issues for the past 20 years. The willingness to show who she is has allowed her the opportunity to speak to women all over the United States, to meet with Muhammad Ali, the Prime Minister of Israel, President Reagan, and prominent ministers and civic leaders.
She received awards from American Heart Association for volunteerism.
To set up a speaking engagement contact:
Rosalie Jefferson at International Speakers Bureau, Inc.
Phone: 214-744-3885
1401 Elm Street, 41st Floor
Toll Free: 1-888-270-0366
Dallas, Texas 75202
Fax: 214-744-3888
Email: Rosalie Jefferson
Supposedly 500,000 women die a year from heart disease...
I read it once, but didn’t believe it.
Then I died on June 6, 2003.
With radiating pain in my upper back, I went to the emergency room. My intuition told me something very unusual was happening. Abnormal EKG's, nitroglycerin administered under my tongue, a lot of blood drawn, tears running down my face, it didn't seem good. About two hours later a cardiologist opened the curtain separating me from the man getting stitches, "You're young and a woman, probably indigestion; you’ll rest better at home." With that I was discharged. A few hours later at home I had a massive coronary and died.
It wasn’t indigestion.
I have missed a lot since then...
• My oldest daughter and her husband had a baby boy, two years later they had a baby girl. I had always planned on being a cool grandma.
• My other two daughters graduated college. One got married.
• My brother committed suicide when his daughter was a baby, and we lost touch with her mother. My mom was reunited with my oldest brother’s daughter, after thirty years. A miracle I had dreamed of most of my life.
• Threading is more popular than waxing or plucking your eyebrows. I never enjoyed having my eyebrows waxed.
• I missed my anniversary – 26 years of marriage.
• Three reminder cards came in the mail to have a mammogram. The Women’s Breast Cancer center wasn’t notified.
• Oprah ran a special on women’s heart disease in 2005. I liked Oprah, I would have missed it, I worked full time.
Real version: Barely conscious I was taken to emergency room the next day.

I needed surgery; I have been given another chance at life.

I wrote a book:
Lady in the Red Dress: A personal story of a woman with heart disease

I am your sister, your mother, your neighbor, the lady you see panting on the treadmill, and yes that is me you see grocery shopping on Saturday morning.

I am Lois Trader, a woman living with heart disease. I care that I was hours away from being one of the 500,000. I have a story to tell.