Woman's Christian Temperance Union

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing non-sectarian women's organization in the US and worldwide. The women of Fredonia, New York are credited with being the first of the women's groups to visit the saloons. Subsequently, on December 22, 1873, they were the first local organization to adopt the name, Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Also See

• Mary Hunt
• Scientific Temperance Federation
• Temperance movement