GFWC History Timeline : 1868—2015 GFWC emblem
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1900 — Traveling libraries with small rotating collections are sent to rural communities. GFWC President Rebecca Douglas Lowe (1898—1902) remarked at the Fifth Biennial in June 1900, "The most powerful weapon of this crusade for universal education has been the traveling library, . . .which the clubs and State Federations have adopted with a unanimity which attested its value in all localities and under all conditions."

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