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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.
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]
She co-founded the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) on April 25, 1944, with William J. Trent and Frederick D. Patterson. The UNCF is a program which gives many different scholarships, mentorships, and job opportunities to African-American and other minority students attending any of the 37 historically Black colleges and universities.
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]
The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) was founded by Mary McLeod Bethune and others, in Watson's home. [4] [5] Watson also served on advisory boards for the New York Port Authority, the YWCA, the NAACP, and the National Union League. [6] During World War II, she was active with civil defense programs in Harlem. [7]
In addition to her YWCA and NCNW work, Height was also very active in the United Christian Youth Movement, a group intensely interested in relating faith to real-world problems. [6] In 1939, Height went to Washington, D.C., to be executive of the Phyllis Wheatley Branch of the DC YWCA. In the fall of 1944, she returned to New York City to join ...
Another organization, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), was founded in 1935 by civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune and was more involved in Black political matters with the aim to improve the quality of life for Black women and their families. NCNW still exists today as a non-profit organization reaching out through research ...
That same year, Thurmon founded the Aframerican Women's Journal and used the journal as a platform to raise awareness for the archives and ask for women to submit their documents. [4] [8] In 1942, Porter resigned from the committee because of increasing demands of her time from the Moorland Foundation. Thurman became chair in 1944, and in 1945 ...