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From 1936 to 1942, Bethune was simultaneously the president of Bethune-Cookman College (founded by her in 1904, for black students in Daytona, Florida), the first president and founder of the NCNW and the special Roosevelt as Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration. Her plans were to plan, initiate, and ...
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.
Name Charter date and range Founding location Type Affiliation Status References Prince Hall Freemasonry: September 29, 1784: Boston, Massachusetts: Freemasonry, community-based
The first Phillis Wheatley Club was created in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1895. [25] Another club was formed in Chicago in 1896 and focused on neighborhood improvements and charity work. [1] [29] It was founded by Elizabeth Lindsay Davis and was one of the first groups for African American women in the city. [30]
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...