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Middle-Class Women Provide Maternity Health Services for Immigrant Women, 1917-1920

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This resource, from the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the SUNY at Binghamton, focuses on infant and maternal care of immigrants. Middle- and upper-class women in the Women's City Club of New York established a maternity Center in 1917 to serve working-class immigrant women and children from the Lower East Side. These documents show how their motivations and organizing strategies as women reformers set an example that city officials eventually followed.

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    Grade: 7 to 12

    Topics: Electives, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Sociology, United States History

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