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At this conference, the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) was founded. Mary Church Terrell—cofounder and first president of the National Association of Colored Women in Washington D.C.—was the only black women present at and spoke at this conference, she also went to the conference in Zurich in 1919. [7]
The International Council of Women (ICW) is a women's organization working across national boundaries for the common cause of advocating human rights for women. In March and April 1888, women leaders came together in Washington D.C. , with 80 speakers and 49 delegates representing 53 women's organizations from 9 countries: Canada , the United ...
In 2021, the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was passed, which earmarked $550 billion for transportation, clean water, energy and communications projects. Nearly 37,000 projects ...
The International Council of Women of the Darker Races (ICWDR) was an organization for black women based in the United States and headed by Margaret Murray Washington. In existence from 1922 to 1940, the ICWDR was "the first autonomous international organization among African American women ".
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The National Congress of Black Women's founding chairs were Shirley Chisholm and Dr. C. Delores Tucker. Chisholm was an educator, author, and politician. She became the first African American woman elected in Congress in 1968 and in 1972, became the first African American woman to make a serious bid to run for President of the United States.
Pan-American Conference of Women, 1922, Baltimore, Maryland; All India Women's Conference, founded 1927, today over 100,000 members; International Conference for Women Leaders, biennial conference in Israel, first held 1961; International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, 1964, New York, USA, series of ongoing conferences every 3 ...