The March of 300 Women
The women a preacher was about to put out of work came to his church and asked him what he had in mind.
Listen to this place’s story in Peplos.
How the story begins
The phone call said a few women would like to see the minister. It was the morning of the twenty-fifth of January 1917, and the caller was Reggie Gamble, a madam in the Uptown Tenderloin. The Reverend Paul Smith, of the Central Methodist Church on this corner, was leading the campaign against open vice, and the brothels were to be emptied on Valentine's Day. About three hundred women came.
The rest is in the app. Peplos plays the full story when you reach the place. You can also listen ahead of time.
Visiting
Public corner of O'Farrell and Leavenworth streets. Nothing to enter.
Sources
- Gary Kamiya, Revolt of the hookers (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Tenderloin Museum: 100 years of the sex workers' rights movement
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