Editing Key Club (section)

===Inclusivity===
Female students were first allowed to join in 1977 (52 years after the founding of the organization). This occurred ten years before adult women were permitted to join the parent (sponsoring) organization, Kiwanis International.<ref name="urlHistory & Timeline" /> 
In 1980, the first females were elected to the Key Club International Board.  Lisa Cross and Renee Wetstein were elected as Key Club International Trustees. In addition, the first African American was elected to serve on the International Board. Greg Broussard was elected as Key Club International vice-president. In 1996, [[Craig Melvin]] was elected as the first African-American president of Key Club International.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kiwanis International {{!}} Learning to Give|url=https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/kiwanis-international|access-date=July 30, 2020|website=www.learningtogive.org|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807213624/https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/kiwanis-international|url-status=live}}</ref> The 2019 Key Club International Convention's House of Delegates voted to change all references of gender-specific pronouns (i.e., he/him/his or she/her/hers) to the neutral they/them/their pronoun set throughout all of the organization's bylaws. During the same session, the delegation passed a resolution to change the phrase "''...my nation and God...''" to "''...my nation and world...''" in the Key Club Pledge; the Kiwanis Youth Programs Board of Directors, directed by the International Guidebook to review any votes from the House of Delegates, approved the changes.<ref>{{cite web
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|title=Proposed Amendments 2019 ICON
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|title=Key Club International Guidebook
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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118061017/https://s3.amazonaws.com/keyclub-wpassets/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/08122529/KC-Guidebook-20181.pdf
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