The Wisconsin chapter of Church Women United organized a State Unity Day for May 13, 1970 to correspond to the World Day of Prayer. Eleanor Nerdrum of Madison was general chairman.
The Church Women United in Madison, Wisconsin was founded in 1924 under the name of Women Church and Missionary Federation; 1934-1938 the group was called Federated Church Women; 1938 it became know as Madison Council of Church Women; 1950 it was changed to United Church of Women; and in 1968 it became known by its current mane.
