WPLN News Archive; YWCA (Adrienne) 3 29 99; News Archive 2/26/99-4/1/99

drop by the new light at bc a building and what might unify and classes range from jazz or size starting your own business he may also learn about the domestic violence shelter at the triangle house or new start programs designed to support and empower women according to historian kalb you see the history of the white and you see it is the history of nashville women in microcosm every piece of nashville history the stock market crash the great depression the new deal the coming of world war two fits in as pieces of a puzzle with the history of the wider be a cia compared to any claybrook to a piece of the puzzle and wind embers would say she's a great that claybrook is a single mom who joined the wise steps program in an effort to get off welfare within a year she landed a good part time job she says the support and encouragement she gets from the water is unlike other social service programs they're getting you wanna live not it does come in areas to hear his job papering the difficulties together as he was going up the one that made you feel like somebody

teachers really the wisest like this remark they were really big that's the kind of treatment that why was built on it started in at ninety eight as a way to offer women a place to go downtown teach them some job skills and offer them spiritual and emotional support as they make the transition to independent living after the stock market crash and the economic crisis of eighty ninety three farmers had to send their teenage girls to find work in the city you see wrote a book about the wise history for centennial celebration last year there were young women on the street who had lost their family connections very often have come from rural areas but they had gotten to the city and i had no means of support when women began to work downtown or even to go downtown to shop there was nowhere that i could rest use the bathroom they were really just sort of stark but first why did the cia i'll keep it rented wraps over the corner of the gardner nine millimeter shop on what is now a fifth avenue it was incredibly successful and by nineteen oh

nine the why build a new building and find street now known as seventh avenue a year at the dedication of the new residence hall they had a waiting list that why soon venture into politics and lobby the chamber of commerce to secure laws that would provide restrooms and buildings were women were they studied legislation to limit the number of working hours to eight and protested reduction in teacher salaries by the late teens the board realized they should provide a chapter for the african american women in nashville and in nineteen twenty one purchased property ethic and david a blue triangle brach when the depression hit in nineteen thirty the why continue to serve women in the women like calling the font who came to town in nineteen thirty three to attend vanderbilt law school during her student years she roomed in the downtown la and work to the andrew jackson hotel as a waitress it was there or they're calling off i met a young man from carthage to say senator gore albert gore was his name as the country entered world war

to the y mobilized to support the war effort more rick parker was one of the residents who lived in nashville it was nineteen forty three and she was eighteen years old to a tray with parker's mentor and former wide abc president suggested parker living again hall helping when someone at a premium because of war camp and i think also it was rather heavily regulated and many young women could afford to read and i'm probably that they could've found one parker lived there for three years before moving into her own place as women became more financially independent they start needing the why is a place to learn and so the closing again halls doors by nineteen sixty four the y closed a blue triangle branch enjoying this one interracial group as its resident population continue to decline they began looking at other ways to serve women in nineteen seventy eight they moved into the present home and whatnot and started a variety of social service programs to carry on today donna cheek is the current why did you see a president we're just now on the cusp of releasing women evolving turned six

we actually may have a presidential candidate we had more women in politics but we're not there yet we still don't see equality in the workplace i think we've made great strides but we like it when men who have no power we still way though it the cia is dedicated to helping women achieve equality by making women feel good about themselves so that they can achieve our mission has no plans for national public radio i'm a true now as matt