African American Women's Organizations

Natl Council of Negro Women (7) Women's Organizations @ African American Women @

Colored Women's League of Washington, DC

1894 constitution and bylaws, including descriptions of its new kindergarten and other projects.

NAACP - National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People

Founded by leading black and white, male and female leaders of the day (1909), merging an organization led by W. E. B. DuBois with concerned white supporters of racial justice.

National Association of Colored Women

A history of this significant organization, founded in 1896 by women including Harriet Tubman, Frances E. W. Harper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell.

National Association of Coloured Women's Clubs

This guide to a microfilm archive collection (records 1895-1992) itself provides useful background information on an important organization of African American women activists.

Relief Report, Washington, DC, 1894

Thirty-second annual report of the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children for the year ending January 1, 1895.

Ovington, Mary White

Ovington is known as the founding "mother" of the NAACP, an organization working for African American rights.

Relief Report, Washington, DC, 1899

Thirty-seventh annual report of the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, for the year ending January, 1900.