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Officers of the National Council of Negro Women. Founder Mary McLeod Bethune is at center. The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1935 with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality of life for African-American women, their families, and communities.
NCNW's first program was a community-based higher education project, which started in 1975. The organization worked with Empire State College [ 3 ] and community colleges and helped design courses for adult women, active within their communities, seeking to become better leaders through knowledge and improved skills.
After Bethune's death, title to the house passed to the National Council of Negro Women, who continued to use it as a headquarters. [10] The Council of the District of Columbia added the site to the D.C. Register of Historic Places in 1975, and began a major restoration of the home, carriage house, and grounds. [8]
After moving to Norfolk, Virginia In the mid 1940s she was nominated president of the Norfolk Council of Negro Women (NCNW). She served for 4 years before being elected to the position of president of the National NCNW in 1953. [8] She served until 1957. In 1968, Mason was the only black woman on Virginia's Democratic Central Committee. [8]
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In August 1935, Mary Ritter Beard, one of the co-founders of the World Center for Women's Archives, wrote to Dorothy B. Porter, librarian and curator at Howard University to solicit her help in gathering archival materials on African-American women for preservation. [1]