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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.
The Texas Association of Women's Clubs (TAWC) is an umbrella organization of African American women's clubs in Texas. It was first organized as the Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in 1905. The purpose of the group was to allow clubs to work together to improve the social and moral life of people in Texas. [1]
Vivian Carter Mason (born Vivian Carter; February 10, 1900 – May 10, 1982) was a staunch advocate for women's and civil rights as well as an ardent supporter of universal education. She served as an influential president of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) from 1953 to 1957.
The National Council of Women of the United States (NCW/US) is the oldest [1] [better source needed] nonsectarian organization of women in the United States Founded in 1888, [2] the NCW/US is an accredited non-governmental organization (NGO) with the Department of Public Information (UN/DPI) [1] and in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).
National Association of Colored Women's Clubs Emblem. The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) is an American organization that was formed in July 1896 at the First Annual Convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Women in Washington, D.C., United States, by a merger of the National Federation of Afro-American Women, the Woman's Era Club of Boston, and the Colored ...
The First National Conference of the Colored Women of America was a three-day conference in Boston organized by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, a civil rights leader and suffragist. In August 1895, representatives from 42 African-American women's clubs from 14 states convened at Berkeley Hall for the purpose of creating a national organization.
National Council of Women may refer to: National Council of Women of Australia. National Council of Women of Queensland; National Council of Women of Canada; National Council of Women (Chile) National Council of Women of Great Britain; National Council of Women in India; National Council of Women of Kenya; National Council of Women of New Zealand
Founder Carrie Chapman Catt Headquarters building in Washington, DC, circa 1920s Board of Directors, 1920. The League of Women Voters was created in 1920 as the merger of two existing organizations, the long-established National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Council of Women Voters (NCWV).