 Still, in the early 1930s the organization's health clinic added dental and maternal care; annually, it examined more than 4,000 people.The Union and its founder are the subject of Jacqueline Anne Rouse's "Lugenia Burns Hope, Black Southern Reformer".Recent scholarship has studied the relationship between John Hope's stereotypical masculine language and activism and the limited space it allotted his wife, and to which extent such organizations had a "maternalist" ideology.