FLEMING, LETHIA COUSINS (7 Nov. 1876-22 Sept. 1963) directed national campaign efforts among African American WOMEN for three Republican presidential candidates—Warren G. Harding (1920), Herbert Hoover (1936), and Alfred M.
The FEMALE PROTECTIVE UNION was a labor union organized in Cleveland in late 1850. The union, which had features of a mutual-aid society, was formed by about 50 sewing women to combat long hours, low wages, and merchants who refused to accept payment on orders at face value.