Wald's Organization Participation and Achievements

1867: Lillian Wald was born on March 10th

1893: Founded Visiting Nursing Service

1895: Henry Street Settlement founded.
- Founder and member of Outdoor Recreation League- Seward Park

1902: Wald had the NYC Board of Education hire first public school nurse

1903: Helped found the Women’s Trade Union League

1904: Joined National Child Labor Committee

1908: 1st Department of Special Education established in NYC
- Lobbied for regular school lunch
- Investigated working conditions of immigrants for NY Governor Hughes- report led to
establishment of State Bureau of Industries of NY

1909: National Negro Conference held at Henry Street- founding of NAACP

1910: Columbia University created their Department of Nursing and Health
-Served on Joint Board of Sanitary Control

1912: Idea for Federal Children’s Bureau- established

1914: Participated in women’s peace parade and joined Women’s Peace Party

1915: President of American Union against Militarism
- Published “House on Henry Street”
- Protested "Birth of a Nation," a film by the KKK, with NAACP
- NY State Women's Suffrage Campaign

1919: Defended workers' rights publicly as a member of President Wilson's Industrial
Conference
- Represented the Federal Children's Bureau at a Red Cross conference in Cannes, France
- Attended the second International Conference on Women for Peace in Zurich, where members of the Women's Peace Party voted for the League of Nations and endorsed gender equality and woman suffrage-Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded

1920's: Lobbied for Prohibition

1933: Retired after her stroke-wrote books at home

1937: The New York Governor Lehman, Mayor LaGuardia, and President Roosevelt recognized her for her contributions to public heath. She was given an honorary degree and presented with the key to the city.

1940: Wald died on September 1st








Bibliography

“About our Founder, Lillian Wald.” Henry Street Settlement. March 1, 2009.
http://www.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=abt_lwald.

“Exhibit: Women of Valor- Lillian Wald.” Jewish Women’s Archive. February 5, 2009.
http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/wald/lw2.html.

Krain, Jacob. “Lillian Wald.” March 1, 2009.
http://www.jewishmag.com/51mag/wald/lillianwald.htm.