A 1912 meeting of eighteen girls in Georgia started the global Girl Scouts movement
When Juliette Gordon Low gathered eighteen girls in Savannah, Georgia, in 1912, she sparked a revolution in female leadership that would eventually empower millions of young women across the globe.
Juliette Gordon Low returned from England inspired by the Boy Scouts and decided that girls deserved the same opportunities for adventure and self-reliance. On March 12, 1912, she made a historic phone call to her cousin, famously declaring 'I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight.'
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