Wisconsin) Friendship Club (Madison

The Friendship Club of Madison, Wisconsin, was an interracial women’s social club active in the early 1950s. Its best-known publication, Friendship Club Cook Book, was compiled in 1951 and later preserved by the University of Wisconsin libraries and Project Gutenberg.

According to the University of Wisconsin’s library description, the cookbook was presented as a "token of our friendship and faith in each other and in all people." That makes it notable not just as a collection of home recipes, but also as a record of a local group using everyday domestic life to encourage fellowship and challenge prejudice.

Because this was a club rather than a single named writer, there is not a standard individual author biography to tell. What survives most clearly is the group’s shared purpose: bringing people together in Madison through hospitality, community, and practical work like compiling this cookbook.