Guide to the Four Minute Men, Women's Division, Birmingham, Alabama, scrapbook MSS.0539
Four Minute Men, Women's Division, Birmingham, Alabama, scrapbook
- Publication:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
Box 870266
2003
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-04-05T16:07-0500
- Language Usage:
English
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Four Minute Men, Women's Division, Birmingham, Alabama, scrapbook
- Unit ID:
MSS.0539
- Repository:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.2 Linear feet
- Dates:
1918-1919
- Abstract:
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and other materials about this organization, whose members gave speeches in support of World War I.
- creator
Four Minute Men (Society). Women's Division.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Purchased from Cather & Brown Books, 1989
Biographical/Historical note
During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson established the Committee on Public Information (CPI) to manage news and encourage domestic support for the war. George Creel, the director of the CPI, organized volunteers to give brief speeches (no more than four minutes) wherever they could get an audience. The group of volunteers became known as the "Four-Minute Men." The Women's division of the Birmingham Four-Minute Men spoke at theaters and public gatherings of women. They also formed a chorus, sang at public events, and marched in parades. The group strongly supported patriotic drives and often spoke on the behalf of the Red Cross. They also participated in patriotic drives. The organization disbanded in February 1919.
Scope and Contents note
The collection consists of one scrapbook containing documents from 1918-1919. The scrapbook contains mostly newspaper clippings discussing conferences and programs of the Four-Minute Men and the Four-Minute Men's Women's Division in Birmingham, Alabama. It also contains programs from banquets and conferences as well as letters pertaining to awards and the honorable discharge of the Four-Minute Men.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Kristi Robinson, 2003; updated by Martha Bace, 2013
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
The Four-Minute Men, Women's Division, Birmingham, Alabama, scrapbook, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
None
- Usage Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Use note
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Source(s)
Alabama (localbroad)
Clippings (information artifacts) (aat)
Government, Law and Politics (localbroad)
Organizations (localbroad)
Scrapbooks (aat)
Women (localbroad)
Women--Alabama (lcsh)
World War I (localbroad)
Four Minute Men Scrapbook Box 3110 Folder 4
Four Minute Men, Women's Division, Birmingham, Alabama, scrapbook, November 1918-June 1919 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20445