The Colored Women's League (CWL) of Washington, D.C., was a woman's club, organized by a group of African-American women in June 1892, with Helen Appo...
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Federation of Afro-American Women, the Woman's Era Club of Boston, and the National League of Colored Women of Washington, DC, the Women's Loyal Union as well...
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Mary Church Terrell (category Presidents of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs)
Advancement of Colored People (1909) and the Colored Women's League of Washington (1892). She helped found the National Association of Colored Women (1896) and...
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Helen Appo Cook (category American women's rights activists)
Washington, D.C., and a leader in the women's club movement. Cook was a founder and president of the Colored Women's League, which consolidated with another...
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The Colored Women's Progressive Franchise was an organization advocating for equal rights of African American women organized by Mary Ann Shadd Cary in...
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National Federation of Afro-American Women, the c.1892-94 Women's Era Club of Boston, and the National League of Colored Women (founded when?) of Washington...
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Anna J. Cooper (category 19th-century American women academics)
Jane Peterson, Mary Church Terrell, and Evelyn Shaw formed the Colored Women's League in Washington, D.C. The goals of the service-oriented club were...
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Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs to be a liability to the association due to Southern white women's attitudes toward black women getting the vote...
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representatives of 42 black women's clubs from 14 states—including the Colored Women's League of Washington, the Women's Loyal Union of New York, and...
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such as fencing, wrestling, men's and women's ice hockey, and men's and women's rowing, all of the Ivy League schools were members of other single-sport...
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Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (category American women's rights activists)
women's clubs from 14 states. The following year, the organization merged with the Colored Women's League to form the National Association of Colored...
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Emma Azalia Hackley (category 19th-century American women singers)
and the Colored Women's League. She was a newspaper editor for the women's section of The Statesman and an author. Hackley published The Colored Girl Beautiful...
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The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. (Junior League or JL) is a private, nonprofit educational women's volunteer organization aimed at...
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four other artists at a women's bar outside Berkeley, California. After moving to New York City, she continued work on for colored girls..., which went on...
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Margaret Murray Washington (category Presidents of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs)
practical housewifery." This differed from some women's clubs in the North, such as the Colored Women's League of Washington, D.C., headed by Mary Church Terrell...
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consisting of all-black teams, the National Colored Base Ball League, was organized strictly as a minor league but failed in 1887 after only two weeks owing...
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Charlotte Forten Grimké (category 19th-century African-American women writers)
Jane Patterson, Mary Church Terrell, and Evelyn Shaw formed the Colored Women's League in Washington, D.C. The goals of the service-oriented club were...
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Hills Women's Club Holiday Tea with Tiffany & Co., The Huffington Post, January 05, 2011 USC Digital Library: Society -- Beverly Hills Women's Club, 1951...
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which had led the nationwide fight for women's suffrage. The initial goals of the League were to educate women to take part in the political process and...
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General Federation of Women's Clubs Houston Heights Woman's Club Indiana State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs League of Women Voters Mississippi State...
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the club became the Oregon Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs. Women in the Oregon Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs were also involved in the Suffrage...
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Associated Country Women of the World – international organization formed in 1933 The Association of Junior League International – Women's development organization...
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of the National Association of Colored Women's League Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976) – author, advocate for women's suffrage, education reform and...
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Daughters of Hawaii (category History of women in Hawaii)
The Daughters of Hawaiʻi was founded in 1903 by seven women who were daughters of American Protestant missionaries. They were born in Hawaiʻi, were citizens...
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Ida D. Bailey (category American women civil rights activists)
one of the founders of the Colored Woman's League. In 1892 she was one of the founders of the National Colored Women's League, an organization in Washington...
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union (redirect from Women's Christian Temperance Union)
work and women's suffrage. Two years after its founding, the American WCTU sponsored an international conference at which the International Women's Christian...
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Coralie Franklin Cook (category 19th-century American women educators)
women and the Black Women's Club movement. They were early members of one of the oldest Black women's clubs, the Colored Women's League of Washington, which...
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Hockey League (2012) Australian Women's Ice Hockey League (AWIHL) (2005) New Zealand Ice Hockey League (2005) New Zealand Women's Ice Hockey League (NZWIHL)...
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United Daughters of the Confederacy (category Women's organizations based in the United States)
before women's history and public history emerged as fields of inquiry and action, the UDC, with other women's associations, strove to etch women's accomplishments...
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Ella D. Barrier (category 19th-century American women academics)
included Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. DuBois. She was active in the Colored Women's League in Washington. Ella D. Barrier and her sister lived together in...
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