1896
Civil rights organizingBook sources
Black women form the National Association of Colored Women
United States
Black women’s clubs joined in a national association that combined community work with campaigns against racial injustice. Mary Church Terrell became its first president.
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Context / qualification
The national association formed in 1896, before the early twentieth-century organizing discussed around it in the chapter. Members varied in class position, priorities and strategies; the organization did not speak for every Black woman.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 13, pp. 347–349; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- National Park Service: Black Women’s Club Movement ↗