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African American Women's Organizations

Women's Clubs and other organizations formed by black women in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.
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.

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