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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) (1903–1950) was a U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women to support the efforts of women to...
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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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Association of Junior League International – Women's development organization founded in 1901 Beta Sigma Phi – founded 1931 Communist Women's International (1920–1930)...
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Josephine Silone Yates (category Presidents of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs)
president of the Kansas City Colored Women's League (1893), and was the second president of the National Association of Colored Women (1900–04). Josephine Silone's...
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clubs belonged to the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (IFCWC). Mrs. Cordelia West contacted women's club presidents in Chicago to join together...
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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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(1911) League of Women Voters List of American suffragists List of suffragists and suffragettes List of women's rights activists List of women's rights...
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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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groups to form the National Association of Colored Women, after the 1904 National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Washington, D.C. 1896 Atlanta Conference...
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