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xxiv Timeline of Events Olga Nethersole is arrested for indecency for her performance in Sapho. The first municipal vice commission, the Committee of Fifteen, is established in New York City. Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins publishes Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South. Carrie Chapman Catt is elected president of NAWSA. June 3 The International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) is founded. June 4, 5, or 6 Carry Nation begins her “hatchetation” campaign of (date disputed) saloon destruction in Kiowa, Kansas. July 5 Democrat Elizabeth Cohn becomes the first female delegate to make a speech at a major party’s national convention. September 15 Nannie Helen Burroughs establishes the Women’s Auxiliary Convention of the National Baptist Convention, USA. 1901 Alma White founds a Holiness church called the Pentecostal Union (renamed Pillar of Fire in 1917 to distinguish itself from emergent Pentecostalism). Field hockey is first introduced in women’s colleges. British sex expert Havelock Ellis publishes Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Celestia Josephine “Jessie” Field (1881–­1971) founds the Boys Corn Club and Girls Home Club, the forerunners of 4-­H. Theodore Roosevelt becomes president of the United States. The Socialist Party of America is founded. House and Garden magazine is founded. The Army Nurse Corps, first organized during the Spanish-­American War, is placed on a permanent footing. Its first director is Red Cross Nursing Service director Jane Delano (1862–­1919). 1902 The first independent Young Women’s Hebrew Association (YWHA) is founded under the leadership of Bella Unterberg (1868–­1935), replacing an earlier YWHA founded in the 1880s as an offshoot of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association. Helen Keller publishes The Story of My Life.