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One Destiny!" and its slogan is "Africa for the Africans, at home and abroad!" The broad mission of the UNIA-ACL led to the establishment of numerous auxiliary components, among them the African Legion (a paramilitary group), the African Black Cross Nurses, plus businesses such as the Black Star Steamship Line and the Negro Factories Corporation.
African American Policy Forum; African Civilization Society; African-American book publishers in the United States, 1960–80; Afro-American Association; Alliance of Black Jews; Alpha Kappa Mu; List of Alpha Kappa Mu chapters; American Tennis Association; Ariel Investments; Atlanta Sociological Laboratory; Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh ...
The General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC), founded in 1890 during the Progressive Movement, is a federation of approximately 2,300 women's clubs in the United States which promote civic improvements through volunteer service. Community Service Projects (CSP) are organized by local clubs for the benefit of their communities or GFWC's ...
In the United States, the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) became the primary umbrella organization of women's clubs in the United States. "For the later part of the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth century, the women's clubs were an essential vehicle for women's activity outside of the home."
Membership is open to men and women. Headquarters at 730 S. Grand Ave. as of 1921. It became defunct sometime before 1923. [184] Knights and Ladies of the Fireside – Founded in 1892 in Kansas City, Missouri, by representatives of fraternal orders in Missouri and Kansas. It was open to men and women and had 5,000 members in the late 1890s.
As of 2010, Key Club has 250,000 members in 5,000 clubs in 30 nations, [32] primarily in the United States and Canada, but with clubs also in Central and South America, Caribbean nations, Asia, and Australia. KIWIN'S (pronounced "kee-wins"), a high school program exclusive to the California-Nevada-Hawaii district, operates under the umbrella of ...
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.
All members of CONIFA are encouraged to invest in women's football in their communities, and to create female national selections to play and compete against other CONIFA members. CONIFA's first ever official women's football match took place on 10 November 2018 in Northern Cyprus, with Sápmi ladies beating their Northern Cyprus hosts 4–0 in ...