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Its subjects are women reformers who worked to bridge private charity for single mothers with state funded public welfare, while navigating the racial and gendered elements of turn-of-the-century America. It shows how sentiment and emotion wove a thread through the associational growth of state-sponsored social policy by exploring the early National Florence Crittenton Mission, a network of maternity homes for single mothers and its leader, Kate Waller Barrett. It also examines \"Race Betterment\" campaigns spearheaded by Black women reformers Sarah Malone in Topeka, KA and Lugenia Burns Hope in Atlanta, GA. Lastly, it analyzes the U.S. Children's Bureau and what historian Robyn Muncy terms \"the female dominion\" in the Progressive Era U.S. government through the lens of women charity reformers working on the local and national level. This work explores how late nineteenth, early twentieth century women reformers harnessed sentimentality to create political action in the formation of the American welfare state.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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