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The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs was founded on July 16, 1919, at a meeting led by Lena Madesin Phillips of Kentucky. In the 1930s, it became a charter member of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. BPW/USA became the first organization created to focus on the issues of working women.
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.
The International Federation of Business and Professional Women was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, on August 26, 1930, by Dr. Lena Madesin Phillips of Kentucky. As President of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs in the United States, Phillips had organized several trips to Europe in 1928 and 1929 to network with business and professional women in Europe.
In 1895, Ruffin organized The First National Conference of the Colored Women of America, during which the National Federation of Afro-American Women was created. The Woman's Era became the national news outlet of the club women. [4]
1895 First National Conference of the Colored Women of America, Boston, Massachusetts; 1896 Conference of the National Federation of Afro-American Women, New York; merged with other groups to form the National Association of Colored Women, after the 1904 National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Washington, D.C. [43]
In 1895, the Woman's Era Club proposed a national conference for African-American women. [12] This led to the National Conference of the Colored Women of America, the first conference of black women in the United States which took place in July 1895. [13] In 1901, the club moved its headquarters to Tremont Temple in Boston. [14]
In 1895, Ruffin organized the National Federation of Afro-American Women with Julia O. Henson. [16] [17] She convened the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America in Boston, which was attended by women from 42 black women's clubs from 14 states. [16]
The American Business Women's Association is a national professional association for women, established by Kansas City businessman, Hilary Bufton Jr. [1]. On Sept. 22, 1949, Mr. Bufton and three Kansas City businesswomen incorporated the American Business Women's Association.