The Woman’s Convention ran a full settlement house in Washington slums

Evidence

Burroughs referred to the Centre as a “sociological experiment station” because of the diversity of programs it offered the poor. The settlement operated a program for clothing and feeding the poor. Its soup station, for instance, fed 1,200 people during the winter months of 1915. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 818

Categorization

• SHARE: A specific person tracking women’s institutional history would savor the concrete detail of the WC’s Centre feeding 1,200 during a single winter.
• XREF: connects to: The WC blamed juvenile delinquency on the lack of wholesome leisure spaces. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1598; The Woman’s Convention saw NAACP membership as mandatory anti-lynching solidarity — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1016