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Kate Waller Barrett

In 1895, they founded the National Florence Crittenton Mission, with Crittenton as president and Barrett as vice president.

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Katherine Barrett was a charter member and vice president of the League of Women Voters, and a motivating force behind the creation of the American Legion Auxiliary.

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Kate Waller Barrett (January 24, 1857 – February 23, 1925), née Katherine Harwood Waller, was a prominent Virginia physician, humanitarian, philanthropist, sociologist and social reformer, best known for her leadership of the National Florence Crittenton Mission, which she founded in 1895 with Charles Nelson Crittenton.

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Educator and social worker Janie Porter Barrett (1865–1948), although unrelated to Katherine Harwood Waller Barrett, advocated many of the same voting rights and women's empowerment causes within black communities in Atlanta and Virginia, within Katherine Barrett's lifetime and afterward.

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