Pi Beta Phi was founded as a secret organization under the name of I . C . Sorosis on April 28, 1867 at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois.
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She called the first congresses of women in 1856 and 1869, organized Sorosis in 1869; it was an organization that advocated for greater acceptance and more professional opportunities for women.
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From 1901 to 1906 she was a vice president of the women's literary club Sorosis and president of the Women's Press Club, of which she was also a charter member since its founding in 1888.
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There Cynthia organized a fair to benefit the Freedman's Aid Society, helped found the Chicago branch of " Sorosis " and was its editor for a time, and was a member of the Chicago Philosophical Society.
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The Ossoli Circle was founded by women's rights activist Lizzie Crozier French ( 1851 & ndash; 1926 ), who had been inspired by a visit to New York's Sorosis Women's Club, a literary and book club organized in 1868.
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"' Pi Beta Phi "'( "'??? "') is an international Fraternity for Women, founded at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois on April 28, 1867 as I . C . Sorosis, the first national secret college society of women to be modeled after the men's Greek-letter fraternity.
