SUBJECT FILE National Association of Colored Women, Miscellaneous, [1920 - 49 and] undated NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN Dear Friends: The State of Illinois, by unanimous endorsement, has selected your humble servant as their choice for the presidency of the National Association of Colored Women. Having received the endorsement of associations of N. A. C. W. from many states, North, South, Central, East and West, and having faith in the sincerity and integrity of club women, we are pleased to do our part to carry on the needed work of this organization. We shall do all we can to further the interest and organize the women for solidarity of purpose and constructive effort in worthy projects. We have been pleased to contribute to all movements as Mrs. Meta Pelham, custodian of the Douglass Fund affirms; Miss Hallie Q. Brown, past president of the National Association acknowledges One Thousand Dollars for the Scholarship Loan fund. Every movement or fund has been supported by us. We have been loyal supporters of all presidents, funds and movements of the N. A. C. W. for thirty years. The hearty endorsement of the Illinois candidate by the State Conventions of the majority of the sister states, makes us feel that we may carry on with a constructive program that will bring our people to a realization that by co-operation and concentrated effort we may wipe out legalized segregation and discrimination. We must labor to bring our people, irrespective of local laxity and disregard of religious teaching, back to the old standard of Christianity. PLATFORM We believe: That the National Association should continue to foster Religious Education and Christian attitude for the welfare of the masses. That the N. A. C. W. should continue constructive programs for Mother, Home and Child. That the program of the National Association of Colored Girls should be developed and supported to the fullest extent. That the educational program should be fostered; the depression should not be permitted to lesson effort for the fostering of higher education because of failure to obtain position or remuneration for trained workers. That being unhampered by school obligations of any kind, having retired from the Chicago Public Schools seven years ago, thus being free to follow a constructive program, in Scientific Medicine, Civic movements and Benevolent Affiliations, better work may be accomplished. The changing times and changing programs relative to public sentiment bring us to a realization of this opportune moment for striking for the rights of people, demanding that Negroes throughout the United States be given the same privileges as other American Citizens. (See copy of letter on Segregation, and Answer printed on separate folder. Now, if ever, is the time to strike for legislation which will give our people the right to travel, to eat, and to enjoy all public carriers and conveniences the same as other citizens of the United States. The new Federal Administration, headed by the Chief Executive of our government, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was elected to office on the "New Deal Program". A "New Deal" for us as a group, as a Race and an integral part of American Citizenry, means added opportunities, full rights accorded to every other citizen of the United States to live, to earn a decent living and to advance in every direction, the right to travel unhampered by any principle that is un-American—in other words—the full rights of American citizenship. No more. No less. Yours Sincerely, Mary Fitzbutler Waring, M. D. DR. MARY F. WARING Vice-President at Large Member of Board of Control National Association of Colored Women Member, Board of Douglass Memorial Association, Washington, D. C. Life Member, National Council of Women THE FIRST CONVENTION Ever Called to Discuss the Civil and Political Rights of Women, Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 20, 1848. ---- WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION. ---- A Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman will be held in the Wesleyan Chapel, at Seneca Falls, N. Y., on Wednesday and Thursday, the 19th and 20th of July current ; commencing at 10 o'clock A. M. During the first day the meeting will be exclusively for women, who are earnestly invited to attend. The public generally are invited to be present on the second day, when Lucretia Mott, of Philadelphia, and other ladies and gentlemen, will address the Convention.* * This call was published in the Seneca County Courier, July 14, 1848, without any signatures. The movers of this Convention, who drafted the call, the declaration and resolutions were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane C. Hunt. 2 DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS ---- When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. We hold these truths to be self-evident : that all men and women are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of the new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled. The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. 3 He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men--both natives and foreigners. Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns. He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master--the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement. He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes of divorce ; in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given ; as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women--the law, in all cases, going upon a false supposition of the supremacy of man, and giving all power into his hands. After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it. He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration. He closes against her all the avenues to wealth and distinction, which he considers most honorable to himself. As a teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known. He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education-- all colleges being closed against her. He allows her in Church, as well as State, but a subordinate 4 position, claiming Apostolic authority for her exclusion from the ministry, and with some exceptions, from any public participation in the affairs of the Church. He has created a false public sentiment, by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated but deemed of little account in man. He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life. Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation,-- in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States. In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule ; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. We shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the state and national legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the pulpit and the press in our behalf. We hope this Convention will be followed by a series of Conventions, embracing every part of the country. Firmly relying upon the final triumph of the Right and the True, we do this day affix our signatures to this declaration. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eunice Newton Foote, Mary Ann McClintock, Martha C. Wright, Jane C. Hunt, Amy Post, Catharine A. F. Stebbins, Mary H. Hallowell, Charlotte Woodward, Sarah Hallowell. Richard P Hunt, Samuel D. Tilman, Elisha Foote, Frederick Douglass, Elias J. Doty, James Mott, Thomas McClintock. This Declaration was unanimously adopted and signed by 32 men and 68 women. 5 RESOLUTIONS ------ Whereas the great precept of nature is conceded to be, "that man shall pursue his own true and substantial happiness." Blackstone, in his Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original ; therefore, Resolved, That such laws as conflict, in any way, with the true and substantial happiness of woman, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and of no validity ; for this is "superior in obligation to any other." Resolved, That all laws which prevent woman from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority. Resolved, That woman is man's equal--was intended to be so by the Creator--and the highest good of the race demands that she should be recognized as such. Resolved, That the women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation, by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want. Resolved, That inasmuch as man, while claiming for himself intellectual superiority, does accord to woman moral superiority, it is pre-eminently his duty to encourage her to speak, and teach, as she has an opportunity, in all religious assemblies. Resolved, That the same amount of virtue, delicacy, and refinement of behavior, that is required of woman in the social state, should also be required of man, and the same transgressions should be visited with equal severity on both man and woman. Resolved, That the objection of indelicacy and impropriety, which is so often brought against woman when she addresses a public audience, comes with a very ill-grace from those who encourage, by their attendance, her appearance on the stage, in the concert, or in feats of the circus. Resolved, That woman has too long rested satisfied in the circumscribed limits which corrupt customs and a perverted application of the Scriptures have marked out for her, and that it is time she should move in the enlarged sphere which her great Creator has assigned her. 6 Resolved, That it is the duty of women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise. Resolved, That the equality of human rights results necessarily from the fact of the identity of the race in capabilities and responsibilities. Resolved, therefore, That, being invested by the Creator with the same capabilities, and the same consciousness of responsibility for their exercise, it is demonstrably the right and duty of woman, equally with man, to promote every righteous cause, by every righteous means; and especially in regard to the great subjects of morals and religion, it is self- evidently her right to participate with her brother in teaching them, both in private and in public, by writing and by speaking, by any instrumentalities proper to be used, and in any assemblies proper to be held; and this being a self-evident truth, growing out of the divinely implanted principles of human nature, any custom or authority adverse to it, whether modern or wearing the hoary sanction of antiquity, is to be regarded as a self-evident falsehood, and at war with the interests of mankind. The only resolution which met opposition was the 9th, demanding the right of suffrage which, however, after a prolonged discussion was adopted. All of the meetings throughout the two days were largely attended, but this, like every step in progress, was ridiculed from Maine to Louisiana. ----- The First and Closing Paragraphs of Mrs. Stanton's Address, Delivered at Seneca Falls, N. Y., July 19, 20, 1848: I should feel exceedingly diffident to appear before you at this time, having never before spoken in public, were I not nerved by a sense of right and duty, did I not feel the time had fully come for the question of woman's wrongs to be laid before the public, did I not believe that woman herself must do this work; for woman along can understand the height, the depth, the length, and the breadth of her own degradation. Man cannot speak for her, because he has been educated to believe that she differs from him so materially, that he cannot judge of her thoughts, feelings, and opinions by his own. Moral beings can 7 only judge others by themselves. The moment they assume a different nature for any of their own kind, they utterly fail. The drunkard was hopelessly lost until it was discovered that he was governed by the same laws of mind as the sober man. Then with what magic power, by kindness and love, was he raised from the slough of despond and placed rejoicing on high land. Let a man once settle the question that a woman does not think and feel like himself, and he may as well undertake to judge of the amount of intellect and sensation of any of the animal creation as of woman's nature. He can know but little with certainty, and that but by observation. Among the many important questions which have been brought before the public, there is none that more vitally affects the whole human family than that which is technically called Woman's Rights. Every allusion to the degraded and inferior position occupied by women all over the world has been met by scorn and abuse. From the man of highest mental cultivation to the most degraded wretch who staggers in the streets do we meet ridicule, and coarse jests, freely bestowed upon those who dare assert that woman stands by the side of man, his equal, place here by her God, to enjoy with him the beautiful earth, which is her home as it is his, having the same sense of right and wrong, and looking to the same Being for guidance and support. So long has man exercised tyranny over her, injurious to himself and benumbing to her faculties, that few can nerve themselves to meet the storm; and so long as the chain been about her that she knows not there is a remedy. The whole social, civil and religious condition of woman is a subject too vast to be brought within the limits of one short lecture. Suffice it to say, for the present, wherever we turn, the history of woman is sad and dark, without any alleviating circumstances, nothing from which we can draw consolation. * * * * * * * * The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. It is vain to look for silver and gold from mines of copper and lead. It is the wise mother 8 that has the wise son. So long as your women are slaves you may throw your colleges and churches to the winds. You can't have scholars and saints so long as your mothers are ground to powder between the upper and nether millstone of tyranny and lust. How seldom, now, is a father's pride gratified, his fond hopes realized, in the budding genius of his son. The wife is degraded, made the mere creature of caprice, and the foolish son is heaviness to his heart. Truly are the sings of the fathers visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation. God, in his wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together, that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length, and here, too, is the law of restoration, as in woman all have fallen, so in her elevation shall the race be recreated. "Voices" were the visitors and advisers of Joan of Arc. Do not "voices" come to us daily from the haunts of poverty, sorrow, degradation and despair, already too long unneeded. Now is the time for the women of this country, if they would save our free institutions, to defend the right, to buckle on the armor that can best resist the keenest weapons of the enemy -- contempt and ridicule. The same religious enthusiasm that nerved Joan of Arc to her work nerves us to ours. In every generation God calls some men and women for the utterance of truth a heroic action, and our work to-day is the fulfilling of what has long since been foretold by the Prophet -- Joel, 11, xxvii; "And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophecy." We do not expect our path will be strewn with the flowers of popular applause, but over the thorns of bigotry and prejudice will be our way, and on our banners will beat the dark storm-clouds of opposition from those who have entrenched themselves behind the stormy bulwarks of custom and authority, and who have fortified their position by every means, holy and unholy. But we will steadfastly abide the result. Unmoved we will bear it aloft. Undauntedly we will unfurl it to the gale, for we know that the storm cannot rend from it a shred, that the electric flash will but more clearly show to us the glorious words inscribed upon it, "Equality of Rights." ILLINOIS CLUB SONG Written by Mary Fitzbutler Waring, M. D. (1912 Hampton, Va.) From a wilderness of prairies, Illinois, Illinois, Straight the way and never varies, Illinois, Illinois, Till the women's club we wee And Chicago great and free, Turning all the world to thee, Illinois, Illinois, Turning all the world to thee, Illinois. When there's work that must be done, Illinois, Illinois When there's need to raise a fund, Illinois, Illinois, To the women's clubs we go, They're just they're kind and so. They will never answer "no," Illinois, Illinois, They will never answer "on," Illinois. Have we worked in years gone by? Illinois, Illinois, We say yes, and tell you why, Illinois, Illinois, There's the Children's Home you know And the Scholarship Fund to show While our Clubs still larger grow, Illinois, Illinois, While our clubs still larger grow, Illinois. To our God, who reigns above, Illinois, Illinois, We give honor, praise and love. Illinois, Illinois, For the Women of our land, Who for good and wisdom stand In one grand, united band, Illinois, Illinois, In one grand, united band, Illinois. TEXAS WOMEN'S CLUBS. Noiseless as night gives away to coming day, Noiseless as orbs move in creation's way, Faithful as stars to teach returning night, The Texas Women's Club are moving for the right. We're coming, we're coming with faces toward the sky; We'll save the race for God's own kingdom byb and bye. Broad is our scope; we life our banner high; Climbing we lift our brother to the sky. Helping the youth to meet the coming day, The Texas Women's Clubs are marching on their way. Join us today; help raise the battle song; With church and school we bravely march along Trusting in God to bring the harvest's yield, The Texas Woman's Clubs are marching on their way. Azalia Martin, Corsicana, Texas. 62 Prayer CLUB WOMAN'S PRAYER "Keep us, O God, from pettiness. Let us be large in thought, word and deed. Let us be done with fault-finding and leave off self-seeking. "May we put away pretense and meet each other face to face, without self-pity and without prejudice. "May we never be hasty in judgment; let us take time for all things. Make us to grow clam, serene and gentle. Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straight-forward and unafraid. "Grant that we may realize that it is the little things that create differences; in the big things of life we are one. May we strive to touch and to know the great common woman heart of us all, and, O Lord God, let us not forget to be kind." -11- FIRST CONFERENCE OF NEGRO WOMEN Place Boston,Mass. President Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Date 1895 NATIONAL FEDERATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN Washington. D.C. Mrs.Booker T. Washington, 1896 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN NATIONAL CONVENTIONS HAVE BEEN AS FOLLOWS: Place - President - Date Nashville, Tenn. - Mrs. Mary Church Terrell - 1897 Chicago, Ill. - Mrs. Mary Church Terrell - 1899 Buffalo, N.Y. - Mrs. Josephine Silone Yates - 1901 St. Louis, Mo., - Mrs. Josephine Silone Yates - 1904 Detroit, Mich. - Miss. Lucy Thurman - 1906 Brooklyn, N.Y. - Miss. Elizabeth C. Carter - 1908 Louisville, Ky., - Miss Elizabeth C. Carter - 1910 Hampton, Va. - Mrs. Booker T. Washington - 1914 Wilberforce, Ohio - Mrs. Booker T. Washington - 1912 Baltimore, Md., - Mrs. Mary B. Talbert - 1916 Denver, Colo., - Mrs. Mary B. Talbert - 1918 Tuskegee, Ala., - Miss Hallie Q. Brown - 1920 Richmond, Va., - Miss Hallie Q. Brown - 1922 Chicago, Ill., - Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune - 1924 Oakland, Calif., - Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune - 1926 Washington D.C., - Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart - 1928 Hot Springs, Ark., - Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart - 1930 Chicago, Ill., - Dr. Mary F. Waring - 1933 Cleveland, Ohio - Dr. Mary F. Waring - 1935 Fort Worth, Texas - - 1937 -12- CLUB SONGS CALL TO WOMEN. Tune: "Glory, Glory, Hallalujah" By Mrs. L. L. Parks, Marlin, Texas. Arise, ye Colored Women, There is work for you to do; Oh, how can you be so idle When the race is calling you? Calling now for noble women Who will ever dare and do As time goes marching on. Come and join the Federation, Bravely you must take your station, Win the whole world's admiration As we go marching on. Many evils now existing, Detrimental to our race; You can make conditions better If you'll only take your place. Make a fight with Christ our captain. In the end the right will win, As time goes marching on. We are ostracized on street cars, And we're ostracized on trains; We should ask for better treatment In the Federation's name. "First-class fare" is on our tickets, What it means we are in doubt, As the train goes moving on. Let us now be up and doing, For we have no time to lose; Hear the day is calling for you You must answer; don't refuse. Come and let's unite our forces, Forward march, we ne're can fail, As we go marching on. Lord Jesus, who didst stretch out Thine arms of love on the hard wood Cross, lift us out of private-mindness and give us public souls to work for Thy Kingdom by daily creating that atmosphere of a happy temper and generous heart which alone can bring the Great Grace. 61 MARY McLEOD BETHUNE President SALLIE STEWART Vice President REBECCA STILES TAYLOR Secretary to President The National Association of Colored Women HONORARY PRESIDENTS Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Mrs. Elizabeth Carter Miss Hallie Q. Brown OFFICE OF MRS. VICTORIA CLAY ROLAND GENERAL CHAIRMAN NAT'L ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS COMMITTEE 404 BOWEN AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. A DIRECT PERSONAL APPEAL, TO THE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF MY RACE "Let us make one long strong pull together, Jehovah Leading." - MARY McLEOD BETHUNE, President, N. A. C. W. From the Message of our President "Realizing fully the tremendous tasks we have taken ourselves, in the adoption of the National Association Program, and realizing also that as your elected head I am expected to plan according to my ability for your well being and betterment, and further realizing that every National Organization of any note has National Headquarters, usually in the Capital of the Nation, where records, deeds, seals and all other movable properties are kept, and from which place official orders are given, and official recognition is had, I, your President, placed before you in Washington for your acceptance or refusal, my program - The purchasing of a building which shall be kept as the National Association of Colored Women's Headquarters, and in which a paid Executive Secretary shall be placed. Not one record book nor anything has been handed me by my predecessors, who in turn have suffered even as I. There must be a beginning [ ] [ ] [ ] yourselves to your president's suggestions, and they have already become your program. Already more than $6,000.00 has been pledged by individuals and State Presidents. I am depending on each of you for support in this effort, for I can do nothing without you. We must put this through for it is paramount; not because it is my suggestion, but because to retain our self-respect we must have a central place for the operation of our Machine." Dear Co-Worker: Pursuant to the foregoing statement, the National President has appointed your humble servant as General Chairman of the National Headquarters Fund, with a Committee of Five Sectional Co-Workers. In conference with Mrs. Bethune, the following plans were agreed upon and are hereby broadcasted in the faith that the Committee will have in loving co-operation of the loyal club women everywhere; to the end that our Fund will go over the top when the Report is made at the Biennial Meeting in California. Depending absolutely upon each and everyone of you for your unstinted support in this forward move. I am yours in lifting as we climb. VICTORIA CLAY ROLAND, General Chairman National Headquarters Fund. SECTIONAL CHAIRMEN 1. North East. MRS. JULIA WEST HAMILTON 320 You Street., N. W. Washington, D. C. 2. South East. MRS. CLAUDINE J. BASS 1715 Pulaski Street S. Little Rock, Ark. 3. Central MRS. T. J. NEVINS 2529 N. Newstead Ave. St. Louis, Mo. 4. North West MRS. W. T. FRANCES 606 St. Anthony St. St. Paul, Minn. 5. South West HETTIE B. TILGHAM 1654 Ashby Avenue Berkley, Calif. PLANS FOR THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS DRIVE Each dollar contrinuted is considered as 1 Brick in the Building HALL OF HONOR INDIVIDUAL HONOR TABLET 1. The name of the woman in EACH STATE raising the largest amount of money for the National Association Headquarters will be enrolled on a tablet in the HALL of HONOR. 2. The Clubs of the National Association of Colored Women raising the largest amount of money for the National Headquarters will name the rooms of the building, consecutavely. State Assembly Hall 3. The State reporting the largest amount of money for the National Headqurters will name the Assembly Hall. Section Corridors 4. The Sections raising the largest amount of money for the National Headquarters will name the Corridors. State Honor Roll 5. The Honor Roll for each State will be composed of the names of each individual in that state contributing One Dollar (one brick) or more to the National Headquarters. Names Will Be Arranged According to Amounts Given And Classified as Follows: 1. CLUB ROLL - Giving name of Club, and the name of each contributor. 2. JUNIOR ROLL - Giving the name of each Junior Contributor. 3. INFANT ROLL - Giving names of infants in whose honor a contribution of One Dollar or more is given. 4.COLLEGE ROLL - Giving name of each College Woman Contributor. 5. HONORARY ROLL - Giving the name of each man in the state who contributes One Dollar or more. Junior Federation The Junior Federation of each State will be honored by having their names placed on the windows consecutavely, according to the amounts of money raised for the National Headquarters. When to Begin Work 1. Each Club is authorized to begin at once to solicit contributions for the National Headquarter's Fund. 2. A record must be kept of the names and amounts of al contributions to the Fund. 3. In recording names please record the name of the Club soliciting the donation and state the classification of each name - whether Club Woman, Junior, Infant, College Woman or Honorary (male). 4. Official Report Blanks, on which to make reports, will be furnished to each Club by the General Chairman upon rquest. 5. In order that a State may receive credit for all work done in that State it is very necessary thet the name of the State, Club and the individual be plainly recorded on Official Report Blanks. Sending Reports In order that we may be informed as to the progress of the work, please send all donations to the National Treasurer, MRS. C. R. McDOWELL, 1228 Center St., Hannibal, Mo., and a record of the subscriptions to the General Chairman, MRS. VICTORIA CLAY ROLAND, 404 Bowen Ave., Chicago, Ill. To the acting President Mrs. Christine Smith, First President Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Secretary of National Association of Colored Women Clubs, and members. I wish to extend my felicitations to the federation on its Golden Jubilee. I was with you at your first meeting and took a part in its activities. I was appointed to present the flowers to Mrs. B. T. Washington who presided when she turned the chair over to the President Mrs. Terrell. The late Mrs. Rosetta Lawson gave the first twenty-five cents for the flowers which was a large bunch of pink rose buds. Mrs. Washington wore black lace. Mrs. Terrell wore a linen coat-suit and was very reluctant to go on the platform because she was an expectant mother. Hon. B. H. Bruce shook my hand and congratulated me on my presentation speech. The music that evening was by Alice Strange Davis and Prof. Loudin who was on a return trip from Europe. Roscoe Bruce, myself and others helped serve refreshments. Mrs. Moriah Jordan directed us. She wore white organdy over blue. I wore white organdy over pink. Through the session I sat with and took notes for Mother Tubmann. The height of my ambition, as a young girl just from Shaw University, was to see Mrs. B. K. Bruce. I wanted to see how she dressed and so on. To my surprise she was on the plainest dressed woman in the Convention. One day she wore a white jacket with no lace or frills. At lunch she spilled something on it, washed it and stood outside of the church door in the sun to dry it and wore it the rest of the day. Many times I worked on committee with Mrs. Bruce especially in the W.T.C. work. She was a charming, quiet lady. Mrs. Josephine Rubbine was another person I was very fond of. When the Association met here last, I worked very hard to make it a success and also with my dear friend Mary Talbert for the Douglas Home. In one of the cases in the Home you will notice a small brass snuff box I presented for the shrine. It was Mr. Douglas' snuff box. He gave it to my little girl on her first birthday forty years ago. Nearly all of my Fireside Club have passed on to their reward. I am a cripple but still doing social work. Am now engaged in the Leper work with the American Mission to Lepers. Some of my former activities were: President, Parents Association - seventeen years Vice President, Federation P.T.A. - three years Sole charge of Religions and Social work for the Key Prisoners of D.C. Penal Institute - Seven years Mother and organizer Young Converts Club of 19th. St. Baptist Church - six years Charter member of D.C. Public School Association and many other activities of the District of Columbia. May our fiftieth anniversary meet with the greatest success. I am Sincerely yours, Mae J. Richardson 2310 F St., N.W. Phone - ME 3859 In order to maintain their self-respect, the members of the National Association of Colored Women were forced to cancel their program, prepared at the request of the Music Department of the National Council of Women, for the Musicals given May fifth by the Inter-national Council of Women, during its Quinquennial Session in the national capital. Since the National Association of Colored Women represents a membership of one hundred thousand, the Executive Committee now assembled in Washington feel that it is their duty to their organization, to their country, and to the whole civilized world, to explain why they so suddenly withdrew from a program in which they had made such extensive and expensive plans to participate. Having learned that there was a possibility that colored people would be segregated in the Washington Auditorium, several officers of the National Association of Colored Women conferred with the president of the National Council of Women, and with the Chairman of the Department of Music, to protest against the contemplated discrimination. The National Association of Colored Women is now and has been for many years a member of the National Council of Women. Therefore, the officers of the Association feel that they had a right to expect the same courteous treatment for all of their races that other groups received. for this reason, they insisted that there should be no segregation. From a written statement made by the president of the National Council of Women, the officers of the National Association of Colored Women were led to believe that their race would not be segregated. 2 In order to make their position in this matter perfectly clear, the officers of the National Association of Colored Women explicitly stated that, if there [were] was any discrimination on account of color or race, they would cancel their part of the program. Therefore, the charge that the National Association of Colored Women withdraw from the program without warning is not founded in fact. Upholding their own purposes and ideals, as well as those of the International Council of Women, even though they deeply regretted it, the officers of the National Association of Colored Women were forced to withdraw from the program. The Executives Board of THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN Mary McLeod Bethune, President Mary Church Terrell Chairman of Committee on Resolutions Fredericksburg Clubs ; Mrs. Julia Ross 314 Fourteenth St Women's Christian League Fincastle Clubs : Mrs. Dora Preston Elite Sewing Leesburg Clubs: Mrs. E.P. Diggs Leesburg Art Club Bristol Club: Mrs. Carrie Davis Twin City Improvement Club Staunton: Mrs. Almira E. Ambush 426 North Market St. Staunton Club New Port News, Mrs. S.M. Grant 715 Twenty-fourth St Busy Bee Mrs. Ollie S. Harris 724 Twentieth St Ladies' Aid Mrs. M.E. Baradelle 2131 Madison Ave. Queens Fsther Mrs. Harriett McEachin 1326 Thirty-Second St East End Mothers Richmond : Mrs. G.W. Lewis 714 North Ninth St. Y.W.C.A. Phoebus: Mrs. Lilla Rivers Tide Water Art Hampton: Mrs. Caroline Ealy 162 West Lincoln St. Ladies' Relief Corps Norfolk : Mrs. Martha C. Walker 67 Johnson Ave. Golden Sheaf Circle Mrs. B. B. Elliott 51 Johnson Ave. Girls' Progressive Mrs. Mary Miller Victoria St. Monday Night Sewing Class Mrs. Diana Ashby 213 Walker Ave Charity Club Miss Constance Fuller 170 Queen St Y.W.C.A. United Mrs. Abigail Doyley 329 Cumberland St Old Folks' Home Mrs. Etta Laycock 95 Queen St. Women's Exchange Mrs. Margret Lawrence 224 Cumberland St Kindergarten Ass'n Mrs Hattie Bess 611 Columbia St Portsmouth Auxiliary Y.M.C.A. #2 Portsmouth: Mrs. Ada Robinson 838 London St Day Nursery Mrs. I. M. Smith 1111 Glasgow St. Civic League Mrs. L.V. Cameron 1413 Glasgow St. Woman's League Mrs. Florence Mosely 1326 High St Old Folks' Home Richmond Mrs. Eliza Norelle Moore St Women's Union Roanoke: Rev. Johnson Sixth Street Northwest Club Mrs. Mary Carey Salem Va. Women's Federation Mrs. Lucinda Carter Glen Allen, Va. Glen Allen Club. Florida State Federation of Women's Club Tampa Clubs: Mrs. Sarah A. Farrel 1310 Main St Harriett Toubman Mothers Mrs. Ella Player Negro Woman's White Rose Club Mrs. Blanche McFarland 1010 Blanche Woman's Improvement Circle Mrs. Ida Williams 1111 Scott St Phyllis Art Club Wheatley Jacksonville Clubs: Mrs. S.M. Blake St. Paul's Improvement Mrs. Alice Jackson Clarksville Improvement Mrs. Annie Tucker Christian Workers Club Mrs. E. Dix Barker J.H. Blodgeet Helping Hands Club Mrs. C.B. Forrester 538 Magnolia St Brooklyn Improvement Club Mrs. G.C. Heard 318 B. North St M. E. C. Club Mrs. G.N. Barnes 2204 C. Street Orphan & Industrial Home Mrs. Cora Walker Spearing St Triumph Lodge Civic Club Mrs. Hattie Lattimore 25th Street Queen Esther Club Miss E.M.M. White 233 Eagle St Old Folks' Home Assin. Gainsville Clubs : Mrs. E. J. Richardson Church St Harriett L. Dorah Club Mrs. M.F. Days 300 West Boundary St Excelsior Reading Circle Palatka Clubs : Mrs. L.E. Morris Box 121 Dorcas Club Mrs. Annie Carson Naomi Club Naomi Club Mrs. Annie Brown Willing Workers Orlanda Clubs ; Mrs. G. O. Hatcher. 507 West Church Colored Women's Civic League Mrs. L. Arrington 11 Bryant St Women's Dev. Club Mrs. Marguerite Cromartie Mother Brown's Club Miami Clubs: rs N. S. Powers 311 Ave G. Women's Community Miami Clubs (Con). Mrs. Harriett Sargent, Y.M.C.A. Mrs. Alicia Hepburn, Woman's Excelsior Mrs. H. H. Taylor, 716 First St, Universal Sunshine Mother's Club Daytona Clubs: Mrs. L. Bryant, Box 471, Frances R. Keyser Miss Lucy Miller, Box 471, Seeds of Kindness Mrs. M. F. Carey, Amanda Smith Club Mrs. Georgia McNeil, Box 471, Jennie Dean Club Mrs. R. V. McLin, Hauge, Fla, Josephine Silone Yates C Mrs. V. C. Anderson, Crescent City, Crescent Mothers Club Mrs. Emma J. Collyer, 309 Terry St., Orlanda Mrs. R. S. McDuffy, Box 495, Clearwater, Helping Hand Club Mrs. S. E. Smith, Box 1471 Sanford, Woman's Charity Mrs. Laura Clark, Eatonville Mrs. Fannie D. 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McNeal, 1438 Euterpe St. Montana Clubs: Kalispell: Mrs. Emma S. Keeble, 318 West First St. Mrs. B. C. Makins, 748 Eighth Ave, West Mrs. E. T. Cooper, 644 Third Ave, East Arkansas Clubs: Little Rock: Mrs. D. B. Gaines, 1710 Izard St. Mrs. A. B. Ives, 2400 Park Ave. Arkansas Clubs (Con). Arkansas: Mrs. A. M. Singield, 621 East Twenty-First St. Mrs. Mary Block, 1800 Valentine Street Mrs. J. F. Flowers, 1401 West Twelfth St. Hot Springs: Mrs. N. B. Eden, 234 Palmetto St. Mrs. L. R. Brandom, 121 Robbins Street Mrs. John Graham, 315 Walnut Street Mrs. W. C. Maze, 1 Rige Street Mrs. Emma Young, Carlisle Arkansas Mrs. M. Wallace, Monticello Mrs. F. E. Darby, Cotton Plant Mrs. L..C. Deloney, 405 Preston Street, Texarkana Mrs. Mary E. Josenberger, 703 North 11th Street, Fort Smith Mrs. Mary J. Lewis, 620 North 8th Street, Fort Smith Mrs. L. O. Bryant, 1812 West Sixth Ave., Pine Bluff Mrs. L. C. Burnett, 1229 West Pullen Street, Pine Bluff Mrs. B. R. Ashford, 1505 Pulaski Street, Little Rock Mrs. Wiley Graham, 315 Walnut Street, Hot Springs Mrs. M. H. Spight, 900 Cross Street, Little Rock Mrs. L. N. Porter, 1201 Pulaski Street, Little Rock Mrs. L. H. Humphrey, Box 473, Coto, Cotton Plant Mrs. Willie Jackson, 1101 South Fourth St., Fort Smith Indiana Clubs: Indianapolis: Florence Bennett, 701 West ;3th St, Woman's Club Mrs. Malvina Smith, 1616 Yandes St, Mary G. Evans Mrs. Julia Reed, 1925 Bellefontain, Alpha Home Ass'n Daisy Brabham, 1349 Graceland Ave., Woman's Improvement Club Patsie Jackson, 1234 26th St, Friend's Club Minta Holmes, 355 West 11th Street, Mothers' Guide Betty Mayfield, 824 Indiana Ave, Gold Star Phoebe Edmon, 1034 West 26th Street, Young Women's Service A. J. Grubbs, 759 West 25th Street, West End Utility Hannah Johnson, 316 Arch Street Callie Wilkerson, 1049 West 26th St., Golden Leaf Irene Allen, 1739 Columbia Ave., Semper Fidelis Stella Rowe, ;325 North West St., Florence Nightingale C. 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Washington C. Mrs. Mamie Moore 1121 Cleveland Ave. " Alsbic Club Mrs. Emma Guge 1317 New Jersey St Lawrence Carnation Art Club Mrs. Adella Miller 628 Mass. Ave., Imperial Art Club Mrs. Mary Brown 221 Linn St Leaven worth Progressive Art Club Mrs. Alberta Chavers 210 S. 9th St Leavenworth Clover Leaf Club Mrs. Myrtle Potter 307 Riley St. Atchinsin Carnation Art Club Mrs. Matilda Waters 12th & Mount Sts. " Sunflower Art Club Iowa Clubs: Mrs. Mattie Woods 1074 W. 11th St Des Moines Harriet Beecher Stowe Mrs Emma Prise " " Callanan Industrial Mrs. J.L. Edwards 2625 Chester Ave. " " Intellectual Improvement Mrs. Colleen Jones 700 Grand View " " Mary Church Terrell Mrs. Alvin Jefferson 1322 Day St. " " D.Y.W.Y.K. Mrs. Mattie Warricks 1006 13th St " " Dramatic Art Mrs. J.W. Campbell 1229 Center St " " Mothers Congress Mrs. W.B. Cottoms 950 22nd St " " Richard Allen Aid Mrs. J.B. Rush 317 Locust St " " Suffragette Mrs. S. Joe Brown 1058 5th St " " High School Girls C. Mrs. Alice McDowell 909 8th St " " Eliza Peterson W.C.T.U. Mrs. Ada White Buxton Self Culture Mrs. Mary Miles " Fanny Barrier Williams Mrs. Belle Watkins " Ladies' Industrial Mrs. A.D. Johnson " Buxton City Federstion (8) Iowa Clubs (Con). Mrs. Emma Brooks 415 West 9th Street Davenport Toussant L'Overture Mrs. Jessie Piper 723 Harrison St " Elizabeth Linsday Davis Mrs. Frances Baker 908 Judson St " Vine and Needle Mrs. L. L. Coates 3615 Glenn St Sioux City Art, Ind. & Philanthropic Mrs. Mamie Gray 910 7th St Cedar Rapids Josephine Siloame Yates Mrs. Elnora Gresham 397 15th Ave. W. " " Culture Club Mrs. Addie Clarke 714 3rd Ave. E. Oskaloosa Ladies Progressive Loyal Mrs. Cora Jones 416 N. 5th St " Mothers Club Mrs. Frances Hicks 631 Grand St Ottumwa Ida B. Wells Mrs. M.F. Cheshire 624 Mechanic St " Benevolent Club Mrs. Henry Brown 710 N. Howard Indianola Indianola Progressive Mrs. I.L. Brown 712 Brombey Marshalltown Lawrence Clifton Jones Mrs. Myrtle Rhoades R.F.D. #5 Washington Culture Club Mrs. Emma Hicks 802 E. Jackson Centerville Art & Industrial Mrs. Lena McDavis 116 Iowa Ave Iowa City Moore Mite Missionary Mrs. J. W. Bowles 620 Mulberry St Waterloo Art Club Miss Vivian Smith 110 W. Mullen St. " Music Kentucky Clubs: Miss Martha F. Williams 226 Third St. Frankfort Artistic Ten Hospital Club King's Teachers' Corinthian Bap't. 10 ) Women's Economic Corinthian Church Aid Normal Hill Woman's Club clubs) Mite Missionary Society, St. John's Church Teachers' Reading Circle Children's Union Frankfort, City Federation c/o Miss G. A. Nugent 526 W.O. St Louisville F.C. Carter Club Miss G. A Nugent 526 W.O. St Louisville Women's Improvement c/o Miss Nugent [Whited out] Louisville Beargrass Sewing Circle Mrs. M. V. 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Yates Mothers' Club Miss Deon Jackson 43 Hall Ave Newport Young Women's Progressive Mrs Arnold Malray 32 Prospect St Providence Onley St Church Sunday School Dr. Jackson 204 Meeting St Providence Congdon St. Church Sunday School Miss Roberta J. Dunbar 58 Winter St Providence Women's New Century C. Miss Mary Winston 2 Barney Place Newport American Girls' Culture Connecticut Clubs : Miss Grace Fells 38 Baltic St Norwich Rose of New England Mrs. Susie I. Amos 93 Eaton St New Haven Women's 20th Century Mrs. Minnie Modest 704 Orchard St New Haven Loyal Workers K.D. Mrs. Sadie Woodson 171 Capen St Hartford H.B. Stowe Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis 9 Oak St Ansonia F.F.W. Harper Miss Lottie Jefferson 157 Olivia St Derby A.W. Wiley Literary Miss Agnes Roberts 80 Hazel St New Haven Roberta J. Dunbar Mrs. Rosie Jones 9 Vista St Stamford Children's Home New York Clubs : Mrs. M.B. Pope 1405 St. Lawrence Ave Van Nest White Rose Ind Ass'n. Mrs. M.S. Gale 164 Hoyt St Brooklyn Concord W.C.T.U. Mrs. A.W. Seay 152 Montague St Brooklyn Dorcas Home Missionary (14) New York Clubs (Con). Mrs. Bessie Van Dank Hillburn Paul Lawrence Dunbar Mrs. C. S. Gunner Hillburn Brooks-Chapel Mothers Miss Alice F. Thompson 1214 Carroll St Brooklyn LinenShower Mrs. M.C. Lawton 173 Willoughby Brooklyn Woman's Loyal Union Mrs. Thomas Ricks Scotia Lydia Lee Thompson Schenectady New Jersey Clubs: Miss Henrietta Floto 108 Kensington St Jersey City Afro-American Woman's Industrial Club Mrs. Bertha M. Cotten 221 Graham Ave Paterson Woman's Fortnightly Mrs. Florence Randolph 103 Astor Place Jersey City Helping Hand W.C.T.U. Mrs. Ida T. Gordon Armory St Englewood Bethany Art Mrs. Mary Goodwin 14 McKinley Ave Hackensack Y .W.C.A. Orange Mrs. E.S. Johnson 75 Railroad Ave Hackensack Ladies' League Miss Clara Steward 22 Terrace St Bridgeton Federation Club, Cumberland, Bridgeton Co. Mrs. Louisa Smith [2?] Kearney Ave Jersey City F.E.W. Harper, W.C.T.U. Pennsylvania Clubs: Mrs. J. Hall 2057 Katherine St Philadelphia Pastor's Aid Mrs. Mary Harris 1843 Wharton St Philadelphia Fannie Coppin Relief Miss Bailey Douglass Hospital Phi[u]ladelphia Douglas Hospital Aux. Mrs. M. Mossell Griffen 6718 Chew St Germantown Harriett Tubman, Philadelphia Mrs. S. Blanche Poole 1740 Webster St Philadelphia Woman's Mite Missionary Miss Reeves 619 So. 19th St Philadelphi[u]a Busy Bees Y.W.C.A. Social Service Club ) Ministers' Wives Association ) Mrs. M. Mossell Griffin, 6718 Chew St. (15) Massachusetts Clubs Mrs. T.E. Elmore 15 Dilworth St. Boston Woman's Era Mrs. Gertrude L. Potter 622 Maple St. Fall River E.C. Carter Mrs. Margaret Burwell 12 Worcester St Cambridge Rachel C. Richardson Mrs. Nellie S. Saunders 4 Ashburton Place Boston Ruth Circle Mrs. Jessie Johnson 979 Massachusetts Ave Arlington Harriett Tubman W.C.T.U. , Boston Mrs. Bertha Cross White 662 Shawmut Ave Boston Sojourner Truth, Boston Mrs. Adelaide Gibson 274 Main St- Malden Woman's Protective League Mrs. Edith F. Slade 6 Rockwell St Cambridge Pentecostal Association Miss A.B. Smith 27 Ashland St Haverhill Woman's Improvement Mrs. Harriett Shummack 396 West Main St New Bedford Woman's Loyal Union Miss Estelle Merry 223 Western Ave Cambridge William Lloyd Garrison Mrs. R.C. Jones 27 Holburn St Roxbury Charity, Cambridge Mrs. Bertha Foreman 100 Mulberry St Worcester Home Association Miss Alice Roache 61 Sargent St Springfield Mary H. Garnett Mrs. Dora Johnson 71 Savin St Roxbury Plymouth Lend-a-Hand, Boston Mrs. Lillian Higgins 51 Monroe St Springfield F.E.W. Harper Miss Mary A. Williams 218 Northampton St Boston Lincoln Musical & Literary, Boston Mrs. Anna B. Cooper 28 Ball St Boston Seeds of Kindness Mrs. Anna C. Ripley 4 Perch St Roxbury Robt. G. Shaw Ladies' Aid Ass'n Mrs. Sarah H. Pri[o]ichett 10Dilworth St Boston Heart and Hand Mrs. T.A. Anten 24 Mead St N. Cambridge Junior Stewardess Rush A.M.E. Church, Cambridge Mrs. M.D. Webb 211 Park St New Bedford Silver Cross Circle Mrs. Olive Wilson 52 Newcomb St Boston Eliza Gardner Mothers' Club Mrs. Lucinda Still 90 Westminister St Boston Sherwin Hyde Mothers Mrs. Mary L. [Ta??or] 22 B. Foley St- Attleboro Paul Lawrence Dunbar Mrs. Madeline W. Kountze 57 Jerome St W. Medford Lucretia Mott Mothers Mrs. Grace Thompson 1 Raymond St Allston Daphodil Philanthropic Mrs. L. Frith 39 Dundee St Boston Woman's Christian Union Miss D. Gonsalves 396 West Middle St New Bedford Phyllis Wheatley (16) Massachusetts Clubs - Con. Mrs. Mary A. Bivens 26 Grigg St. Cambridge River Side Mothers Mrs. Bertha P. Yancey 200 Main St Stoneham Women's Excelsior - Winchester Miss Geneva A. Stewart 417 Perry St Everett Etude Club - Boston Mrs. Claudia R. Whaley 37 Hubbard St Cambridge Social Service Circle - Boston Mrs. H. A. L. Jones 637 Shawmut Ave Roxbury Progressive Civic Mrs. Helen C. Turner 20 Sodon St Cambridge Hat & Flower Makers Business Association Miss Marion Scott Carroll St Worcester (17) STATE OF WASHINGTON WOMEN'S CLUBS ADDRESS OF EITHER PRESIDENT OR SEC'Y WITHOUT DEFINITE DISTINCTION. Mrs. Jessie Carter, 119 E. Montgomery St. Spokane Washimgton Mrs. B. Dorsey, N. 5008 Hawthorn, Spokane, Washington. Miss Mayme Hagan, E. 25 Fifth Ave., Spokane Washington. Miss E. Barrow, E. 2417 Second Ave., Spokane Washington. Mrs. George Clay, 311 E. 3rd Ave ., Spokane, Washington Mrs. C. P. Patterson, North Yakima, Washington. Mrs. N. J. Asberry, 1219 So. 13th Street, Tacoma, Washington Mrs. J. H. Corbin, 1221 So. Adams St., Tacoma, Washington. Mrs. M. T. Fisher, 718 10th Ave., Seattle, Washington Mrs. Anthony Porter, Coeur D' Alene, Idaho. STATE OF UTAH--NAMES OF PRESIDENTS. Mrs. Chas. McSwine, (Musice & Art Club) 1089 So. 7th East Salt Lake City, Utah. Mrs. Mary Corpening(Ladies Aid) 541 S. 2nd E. Salt Lake City, Utah. Mrs. M. Hatfild,(W omen's Progressive)612 E. Broadway, Salt Lake City. Maryland Clubs Baltimore: Mrs. Caroline Owens 543 Presstman St. Mrs. Mamie E. Jones 1506 Presstman St. Miss Ida R. Cummings 1234 Druid Hills Ave. Mrs. Annie T. Wright Carey Presstman Sts. Mrs. Melissa Minor 1539 Division St. Mrs. Jennie H. Ross 2047 Division St. Mrs. Martha Thompson 2143 Division St. Mrs. Mamie R. Bruce 547 Presstman St. Mrs. Johnson 1016 Linden Ave. Mrs. Mary Chinn 1936 White St. Mrs. A.L. McGuinn 1911 Division St. Mrs. Annie M. Wortham 634 George St. Mrs. V. T. Lawson 1515 Riggs Ave. Miss Charlotte Davage 1234 Druid Hill Ave. Mrs. S. C. Fernandis 927 Druid Hill Ave. Mrs. Estelle Fennell 1509 Druid Hill Ave. Mrs. St. Clair. High St. Cambrdige Mrs. Laura Wheatly 1230 Druid Hill ve. Miss F. L. Lawson 1515 Riggs Ave. Mrs. Rosa Fletcher 1 Roberts Ave. Catosnsville Mrs. S. A. Lewis 1326 Druid Hill Ave Mrs. Maud Kelson 1510 Prestman St. Mrs. Mary E. Lee 925 Leadenhall Ave. Mrs. M. L. Gaines 427 Asquith St. Miss Hattie Tyler 114 W. Biddle St. Mrs. Sophia Simpson 1234 Druid Hill Ave. Mrs. Estelle C. Young 1821 Druid Hill Ave Mrs. H. Garver 73 North West St. Annapolis Mrs. H. L. Crew 664 West Mulberry St.p Mrs. Adeline Keys 118 W. Biddle St. Mrs. M. P. Hill 417 Mosher St. Mrs. D. G. Mack 2133 Druid Hill Ave. Mrs. J. F. Carroll 334 S. Caroline St. Mrs. A. M. Diggs 713 W. Mosher St. Mrs. Annie Briscoe 1302 Mount St. Mrs. Mary J. Williams 4 Virginia Ave. Towson Mrs. Rachel Taylor 1964 Druid Hill Ave. Mrs. Herbie Williams W. Main St. Ellicott City Mrs. Bertha C. Winston 1508 E. Monument St. Mrs. E. J. Holt 1711 Lorman St. Mrs. Ida J. Raiff 1336 Argyle Ave. Mrs. Sarah Johnson Hyland Howard Co. Mrs. Martha A. Parks Mt. Winans Mrs. James A. B. Callis 2113 Druid Hill Ave Mrs. Q. Creditt 1358 N. Carey St. Miss Mary Beal 527 Robert St. Mrs. Bettie Bell 1030 Druid Hill Ave. Mrs. Jennie Bishop 130 Richmond St. Mrs. A. B. Turner 422 E. 23rd St. Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller 2646 Boone St. Mrs. Josephine Blackwell 917 Rutkand Ave. Mrs. W. S. Saunders 1405 Argyle Ave. Maryland Clubs (Con). Baltimore; Mrs. Maggie Tucker 1297 Druid Hill Ave. Mrs. F.T. Browne 1611 McElderry St. Mrs. R.T. Reed 434 E. 23rd St. Mrs. C. J. Flagg 620 West Lafayette Ave. Mrs. Howard Young 1100 Druid Hill Ave. Mrs. M. Galloway 500 Block, Lauren St. Mrs. Mary Blake 517 W. Lanvale St. Tennessee Clubs : Officers : President, Mrs. F.P. Cooper 388 So. Lauderdale St. Memphis Vice-Pres Mrs. F.E. Dawson 73 Wharf Ave. Nashville Chm. E. Bd. Miss Mattie R. Jackson 120 Harrison Ave Chattanooga Cor. Sec'y Mrs. A.F. Ward 685 E. Georgia Ave Memphis Rec. Sec'y Mrs. A.T. Johnson R.F.D. #1 Box 98 Oakland Ass't Sec'y Rec Mrs. A.D. Byas 662 Ayers St Memphis Treas Mrs. J.M. Miller 511 E. Clinch St. Knoxville Organizer & Lecturer Mrs. B.W. Graves 624 St. Paul Memphis Chm. Ways and Mean Com Mrs. M.V. Umble Box 92 Oakland Chattanooga Clubs : Federation of Colored Women's Clubs Pres. Mrs. Mary Cheatam 201 Hickery St. Sec. Moved North-No one elected to fill her place Clubs : Modern Dorcas Mrs. G.C. Lee 300 Lookout St Pres. Mrs. N. Hall No Address given Sec'y Ladies Missionary Union, First Congregational Church Miss M.R. Jackson 120 Harrison Ave. Pres. Mrs. E.D. Singleton 25 Grove St Sec'y Modenna Art Club Mrs. J.F. Smith 504 E. 8th St Pres. Mrs. W.A. Thompson 746 E. 9th St Sec'y Modern Priscilla Mrs. S. Vaughn 105 Magnolia St Pres. Mrs. O. Steele 848 E. 8th St Sec'y Missionary Society, A.M.E. Church Mrs. Emma Reed 121 Elm St 1/2 Pres. Mrs. Carrie Phillips E. 8th St Sec'y ?arriman-Excelsior Reading Club Mrs. A.G.T. Johnson Pres. Mrs. Sadie E. Smith 946 Sevior St ?or. Sec'y Jackson-City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs Mrs. John Spann 124 Hale St Pres. Mrs. A.B. Fowler 225 Lexington Ave Sec'y Woman's Club Mrs. W.L. Lovette 121 High St Pres. Mrs. A.B. Fowler 225 Lexington Ave Sec'y Mother's Circle Mrs. T.P. Haralson Cumberland St Pres. Mrs. F.O. Moseley 401 E. King St Sec'y Willing Workers Mrs. James Brown 434 Eastern Ave. Pres. Mrs. Joseph Porter 349 Hale St Sec'y Knoxville- City Federation, Mrs. John Singleton 322 Fouche St Pres. Mrs. J.M. Miller 511 E. Clinch St Sec'y Acacia Rose Circle Mrs. J.M. Miller 511 E. Clinch St Pres. Miss Sue Kitzmiller 507 Nelson St Sec'y Parent-Teachers Association Mrs. FLoyd Clinton St Pres. Mrs. Rosetta Greenfield Clinch St. Sec'y Tennessee Clubs (Con) Knoxville-Con. Mutual Improvement Club Mrs. Alex Adams Clinch St Pres. Miss Hattie Pate Nelson St Sec'y House Wives Mrs. H.W. Keaton 1906 E. Vine Ave Pres. Mrs. M.L. Heard Sec'y Nashville-City Federation Mrs. F.E. Dawson 73 Wharf Ave Pres. Mrs. J.D. Chavis Walden University Sec'y Chm. Exec. Bd. Mrs. J.C. Napier 120 15th Hubbard Hospital Mrs. P.R. Burrus 815 Cedar St Pres. Juvenile Helping Hand Mrs. Elizabeth Kelly 1015 9th Ave. N. Pres. Mrs. F.S. Pearce Sec'y A.M.E. Ladies Union Mrs. H. Thompson Lewis St Pres. Mrs. A.W. Brown Sec'y Phyllis Wheatley Mrs. G.L. Jackson 707 Lea Ave Pres. Mrs. J.H. Hale 523 So. 7th St Sec'y Nonpariel Mrs. Hightower 41 Lewis St Housekeepers Mrs. F.H. Elliot 1107 First Ave So Pres. Marechal Niel Mrs. J.A. Lester 153 LaFayette St Pres. Twentieth Century Mrs. R.W. Wingfield Patterson St. Pres. Memphis- City Federation Mrs. T.S. Brown 611 St. Paul Ave Pres. Mrs. D.E. Anderson Sec'y Coterie Migratory Assembly Mrs. F. Nevils 304 N. Dunlap St Pres. Mrs. Ford Sec'y Ruth Circle Mrs. N.E. Whiteman 599 Polk Ave Pres. Mrs. A.F. Ward 685 Georgia Ave Sec'y Old Ladies and Orphans Home Association Mrs. F.P. Cooper 388 So. Lauderdale St. Pres. Mrs. W.J. Harvey 927 Mississippi Bllv. Sec'y Hiawatha Needle & Art Club Mrs. M.D. King 762 Ayers St. Pres. Mrs. C.J. Covington Jones Ave. Sec'y Ladies' Auxilliary to the Postal Clerks' Alliance Mrs. W.J. Harvey 927 Mississippi Bllv. Pres. Mrs. H. Johnson 927 Mississippi Bllv. Sec'y Child Welfare Mrs. B.W. Graves 624 St. Paul Ave Pres Mrs. Wayman Wilkerson 1246 Race at Sec'y Ruth Circle #2 Mrs. Janie Matthews 589 Jackson Ave Pres. Mrs. Ballard 451 Manassas Ave Sec'y [*(22)*] Tennessee Clubs (Con). Memphis Clubs-con Golden Eagle Mrs. Viney Gray Jones Ave. Pres. Mrs. R. Bell Sec'y Magnolia Relief & Art Mrs. Clara Webster 756 Edith Ave Pres. Miss Estella Rudd Stevens Ave Sec'y. [*(23)*] Oregon State Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. H.M. Gray 4827 33rd Ave. S. E. Pres. Mrs. G.V. Grayson 361 14th Street Sec'y. Mrs. G.N. White 65 E. 10th St. Treasurer Mrs. W. Bogle 565 E. 35th St. So. Chm. Notices Com. Mrs. W. Magett 714 E. Ankeny St. Mt. Olivet Missionary Society, Pres. Mrs. E.D. Cannady #. 2 6th North Women's Civic Club Pres. Miss V. Hooker Box 643 Pendelton Ave. Pendelton Art Club Mrs. G.M. White 653 10th St. Roxana Sewing Club Pres. Mrs. W. Bogle 565 E. 35th St. Rosebud Study Club Pres. Mrs. H. Thompson 1897 E. Everettt Montavilla Industrial Club Pres. Mrs. J.N. Fullilove 888 1st Street Lucy Thurman W.C.T.U. Colored Women's Council Mrs. J.W. Stanley 538 Mall St. Pres. Clover Leaf Club Mrs. L. Hubbard 274 Williams Ave. Sec'y. Hermon Club Mrs. A.H. Morrow 387 Weidler Pres. Bethel Mite Missionary So. Mrs. J.S. Isaacs Pres. Zion A.M.E. Missionary So.. Mrs. W.I. Rowan Pres. J.U.G. Club Miss N. Keene 425 Church St. Colored Women's Republican Club Mrs. H.M. Gray 4827 33 rd Ave. SEE. 20th Century Club Ladies' Dept. Mrs. Leon Gregory 937 Rodney AVe. Pres. Temporary Outline of the Book Dedication. Foreword Elizabeth Lindsay Davis Preface Delilah Beasley Introduction Elizabeth Carter Brooks Table of Contents. Part I. Chapter 1. Reprint of the "History of the Club Movement Among Colored Women" by Elizabeth Carter Brooks. 2. The First Conference-----Boston, Massachusetts, July 1895. 3. The First Congress of Negro Women-Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 1895. 4. Origin and Growth of the National Association of Colored Women. 5. Purpose. 6. Activities. 7. Outstanding Achievements. a. Frederick Douglas Historical and Memorial Association. b. Scholarship Loan Fund. c. National Headquarters, Washington, D.C. d. National Association of Colored Girls. 8. Official Organ. Part II. Projects 1. Douglass Memorial and Historical Association. 2. Scholarship Loan Fund. Part III. Departments. 1. Mother, Home, and Child. 2. Negro Women in Industry Page 2 Part III Departments Co-operating Committees Chapter 1. Fine Arts. 2. Business. 3. Arts and Crafts. 4. Phillis Wheatley. 5. Interracial. 6. Education. 7. Legislation. 8. Peace. Part IV. National Association of Colored Girls. Part V. President's Statement. Part VI. Biographical Sketches 1. Of the Honorary Presidents. a. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell b. Mrs. Josephine Silone Yates. c. Mrs. Lucy Thurman. d. Mrs. Elizabeth Carter Brooks. e. Mrs. Margaret Maurray Washington. f. Mrs. Mary B. Talbert. g. Miss Hallie Q. Brown. h. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune. 2. Of the Present President. a. Mrs. Sallie Wyatt Stewart. Page 3 Part VII Regional Asssciations Chapter 1. Northeastern District-1896. a. Names of the States Comprising the District. 1' When each state was organized. 2' When each state was federated. 3' When Number of clubs in each state. 4' Significant activities of each state. 2. Northwestern District-1914. (Same as above.) 3. Southeastern District-1920. (Same as above.) 4. Southwestern District-1926. (Same as above.) 5. Central District-1926. (Same as above.) Part VIII Biographical Sketches of Outstanding Negro Women 1. In Aircraft. 2. In Art. 3. In Athletics. 4. In Business. 5. In Dentristy. 6. In Education. 7. In Industry. 8. In Invention. 9. In Law. 10. In Library Science. 11. In Literature. 12. In Medicine. 13. In Music. Page 4 Part VIII Biographical Sketches of Outstanding Negro Women (con.) Chapter 14. In Political Science. 15. In Religion. 16. In Social Service. 17. In War. 18. In the W.C.T.U. 19. Inthe Y.W.C.A. 20. In Fraternalism. Part IX. Biographical Sketches of Other Women of Distinction 1. 2. 3. Et. Cetera. Part X Appendix 1. Echoes from the Past Elizabeth Lindsay Davis. 2. Statistical Reports. 3. Miscellaneous Manuscripts. 4. Alphabetical List of Women Mentioned in the Book. Index. Bibliography. STOP LOOK LISTEN!!! Dear Coworker: You have often seen this admonition at dangerous places on the highways particularly at railroad crossings. The National Association of Colored Women are asking you to STOP - LOOK - and LISTEN at the important things which are happening in our club world as well as the great world in which we live. When we say STOP we want you to study the community in which you live; study your club program for ways in which to give a larger service; study your state program for ways to make it more effective and in a much larger way study your national so that you may help to make it work more efficiently on the national level. The national belongs to each individual club woman and it is the responsibility of each woman to make her contribution toward building an effective and efficient organization which reaches down into the various communities of particularly every state in the union with its motto - "Lifting as we climb." When we say LOOK we want you to look at our National Notes, the organ through which the NACW speaks to its constituency and to the great world about us. National Notes must be edited and published. Without its help our organization is like a great ship on the ocean without a rudder to guide. It will be necessary for each club woman to have faith in the present administration to the extent that she will subscribe to National Notes for at least six months and get one other subscriber and send these into our headquarters at once. We cannot plan with the printer to give us a figure on printing until we know approximately how many copies to order. If we can begin on a six months basis I am sure the next six months will be taken care of because the Notes will then become a necessity to each woman. LOOK at the work of your own club and send us items of interest from the programs you are projecting in your town, city or state. He shall want to know how you are helping to face the war situation? How you are supporting the government program in bond buying? How you are planning to meet the problems of the returning soldiers? How you are helping in the youth programs to check delinquency. How you are stimulating the women to register and vote particularly this year as it is the only time in our history when the votes of women will count so much in making democracy work in the United States. How you are studying the various acts of Congress and the bills presented, particularly those which affect women and children, and our own racial group. When we say LISTEN we really want you not only LISTEN to our call but to do something about it. One of the paramount needs is to have a correct tabulation of every club woman in each state with her name and address. As soon as we get our office set up we shall want a card index of every club woman, her official relationship to her club, state central or national association, and her qualifications for leadership; in fact we want a "who's who in the National Association of Colored Women on file in our office. Another listening point on which action is necessary now is that each club send in at once its per capita tax so that we may have sufficient funds to pay for the rehabilitation of your building and for building a program which will help our woman to orient themselves in a more effective relationship in the communities of which they are a part. Another listening point is action on a previous letter sent out from our office a few weeks ago asking for gifts for our building renovation program. Some letters have come assuring us of cooperation. Some have come with substation checks inclosed but we need more and more of these. In a few days work will begin on the interior of our building and we will need the funds with which to pay the contractors. The heating plant has been completed and we shall not have to worry next winter about keeping the building warm. We are asking our national officers to LISTEN and act on assisting our program by sending in their promised quota of $100.00 each. Some have responded but we need a one hundred percent action so that we may go forward with confidence and the assurance that our nation association has abiding faith in itself to do and dare when many are saying we cannot accomplish our objectives . We must keep in mind that the national association has blazed the pathway for some of our most outstanding work leaders of this day. But for the national many would never have gotten beyond the mediocre stage . As we have made it possible for these to climb let us make it possible for the great army of young women who are coming from our colleges and universities to join with us in our program of helpfulness so that opportunities may be given to other women to expand into leadership and to ever keep before us our motto - "Lifting as we climb." Cordially and sincerely yours, Ada B. DeMent, President Christine S. Smith, Vice-President and Emergency Coordinator 1114 O Street N. W. Washington 5, D. C. Temporary Address 1919 - 3rd Street N. W. Washington I, D. C. ITEMIZED REPORT OF THE HEADQUARTERS DRIVE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 1939 By Sallie W. Stewart, Executive Secretary District of Columbia $438.28 Mrs. Grace L. Jackson $333.00 Geraldine Rhodes 105.28 Mississippi 417.16 Mrs. E. B. Miller $100.00 Mrs. L. C. Jefferson 100.00 Mrs. R. S. Lyells 125.25 Mrs. B. L. Johnson 91.91 Virginia 357.50 Mrs. Jennie B. Moton 300.00 Mrs. Ora B. Stokes 50.00 Mrs. M. E. Jennings 5.50 Rev. A. R. Walker 1.00 Moses Gibson 1.00 Texas 321.00 Mrs. F. B. Brockeen 110.00 Mrs. L. W. Rowan 107.00 Mrs. A. B. DeMent 104.00 Florida 327.00 State Association 50.00 Mrs. Alice Miskins 100.00 Woman's Civic League 5.00 Dr. Mary M. Bethune 100.00 Florida Association 72.00 Missouri Association 4.00 B. M. Gradyl 1.00 Jessie Moir 1.00 Mrs. Alison Mason for State Mrs. Alice Mason 30.00 Michigan 183.50 Original Willing Workers 15.00 Mrs. Christine Smith 10.00 Michigan Association 116.50 Miss Meta Pelham 5.00 Miss Hattie Barrier 5.00 Mrs. Gibbs 25.00 Etta F. Taylor 1.00 E. F. Taylor 1.00 L. B. Gregory 5.00 Massachusetts 168.50 Mrs. Elizabeth Carter Brooks 105.00 Ms. M. I. Williams 1.00 Cora R. McKerroll 1.00 M. P. Carlos 5.00 Strathmores 5.00 W. Harvey 1.00 Mass. State Union 25.00 Mrs. Fannie Lomon 7.00 Harry J. Silvan 1.00 Mrs. Freena 1.50 Mrs. McKay Harding 1.00 A Friend 1.00 J. H. Jones 1.00 J. A. Mallory 5.00 Alberta Jones 1.00 Cora Reid McKennaw 1.00 Mrs. O. McClure 1.00 Women's Efficiency Club 2.00 Clara Salternhigh 1.00 Mrs. Carolyn Smiley 1.00 Mrs. F. Mason 1.00 Iowa 165.00 Mrs. S. Joe Brown 100.00 Mrs. Sophia Nichols 15.00 Iowa Association 50.00 Indiana Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart 100.00 Miss Georgia Williams 50.00 Mrs. Mary Johnson 10.00 California 146.50 California Association 146.50 Illinois 136.65 Mrs. Luacco Glaaden 10.00 Mrs. Hannah Woods 14.00 Illinois Association 30.65 Mrs. Annette Officer 10.00 Mrs. Nannie Reed 5.00 Mrs. N. M. Williams 2.00 Mrs. Irene Gaines 5.00 Dr. Mary F. Waring 50.00 Mrs. A. L. Anderson 10.00 Washington and Vicinity 111.00 Mrs. Julia W. Hamilton 100.00 Mrs. M. L. Edmonds 1.00 Mrs. Mary May 5.00 Mrs. Regina Chandler 5.00 Kentucky 240.99 Mrs. Della B. Miller 31.50 Mrs. Rhea Thompson 4.14 Miss Georgia Nugent 64.35 Mrs. Lizzie Fouse 100.00 Mrs. V. M. Durham 5.00 Woman's Improvement Club 36.00 Ohio Mrs. Mary Exum 45.49 Research Club 1.00 Miss Jane Hunter 100.00 Mrs. Ella Stewart 41.00 Ohio Association 15.11 Autumn Leaf Culture Club 10.00 Progressive Club 1.00 Mrs. A. C. Spurloch 5.00 Alabama 191.75 Alabama Association 156.75 Mrs. H. M. Gibbs 25.00 Mrs. E. A. Miller 10.00 Missouri 180.20 Miss Arsania Williams 100.00 Yates Art and Charity 3.20 Modern Priscilla Art 1.00 Wisconsin 100.00 Sadie Rich for State 92.00 Girls' Division 8.00 New Jersey 100.00 New Jersey Association 100.00 National Association of Colored Girls 79.60 Through Mrs. Lucy Harth Smith 79.60 Kansas 70.00 Kansas Association 30.00 Kansas Association 15.00 Oklahoma 59.00 Mrs. Nellie W. Greene 31.50 Mrs. Wm. Madden 2.50 Mrs. H. P. Jacobson 25.00 Arkansas 65.07 State Association 41.57 Mrs. Annie Gillum for state 6.00 Mrs. Annie Gillum 10.00 Mrs. L. S. Dubison 7.50 Colorado 66.25 Mrs. Bondurant 15.25 Mrs. F. Johnson 50.00 Mrs. Bertie Taylor 1.00 Rhode Island 25.00 Mrs. Johnathan Brown 25.00 Georgia 24.60 Mrs. S. M. Lucas 14.60 Mrs. A. S. Clark 10.00 New York 19.15 Dora Needham Lee 5.45 Cecily S. Gunner 12.70 Mrs. H Ross 1.00 Wyoming 10.00 Mrs. Hattie Jefferson 10.00 Minnesota 17.70 Jennie Waters 17.70 North Carolina 10.00 Mrs. H. M. McCrory 10.00 Arizona 10.00 State of Arizona 10.00 Tennessee 9.06 Mrs. J. J. Johnson 9.06 New Mexico 5.00 Mrs. Anna J. Clayton 5.00 States Contributing Nothing in this drive: Connecticut Delaware Louisiana Maryland Montana Nebraska Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina Utah Washington West Virginia [*5-14-39*] National Association of Colored Women, Inc. Organized 1896 Incorporated 1904 Affiliated with the National Council of Women - 1906 Affiliated with Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Assn., Inc. - 1916 President MRS. JENNIE B. MOTON Capahosic, Virginia Vice-President at Large MISS ARSANIA WILLIAMS 4318 San Francisco Avenue St. Louis, Missiouri First Recording Secretary MRS. M. JOSENBERGER 703 N. Eleventh Street Fort Smith, Arkansas Second Recording Secretary MRS. NANNIE M. WILLIAMS 3640 Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois Third Recording Secretary MRS. IDA HENDERSON 498 Johnson Avenue Atlanta, Georgia Treasurer MRS. ELLA P. STEWART 566 Indiana Avenue Toledo, Ohio Chairman Executive Board MRS. ADA B. DeMENT 708 S.E. Fourth Avenue Mineral Wells, Texas Secretary Executive Board MRS. CATHERINE HELM 520 Indiana Avenue Witchita, Kansas Parliamentarian MRS. M.J. BROCKWAY 1239 N. Seventh Street Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Statistician MRS. LIZZIE B. FOUSE 219 North Upper Street Lexington, Kentucky Auditor MRS. WANZA B. WEBB 2516 Corprew Avenue Norfolk, Virginia Chaplain MRS. L. M. Johnson 1130 E. Humbolt St. Ft. Worth, Texas BOARDS Headquarters DR. M. McLEOD BETHUNE 1812 Ninth Avenue, North Washington, D.C. Scholarship DR. HALLIE Q. BROWN Homewood Cottage Wilberforce, Ohio Douglass Board N. A. C. G. MRS. SALLIE W. STEWART 800 Lincoln Avenue Evansville, Indiana Past Presidents' Council MRS. MARY C. TERRELL 1615 S. Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. MAJOR DEPARTMENT HEADS Mother-Home-Child MRS. L. W. ROWAN Prairie View College Prairie View, Texas Negro Women in Industry MRS. A. L. SPAULDING 510 Morris Street Charleston, West Virginia Phillis Wheatley MISS JANE HUNTER 4450 Cedar Avenue Cleveland, Ohio Nat'l Supervisor of N. A. C. G. MRS. LUCY HARTH SMITH 258 E. Fifth Street Lexington, Kentucky Administrative Board Members at Large MRS. S. JOE BROWN Des Moines, Iowa MRS. LETHIA FLEMING Cleveland, Ohio MISS ANNIE B. GILLIAM Little Rock, Ark. MRS. CHRISTINE S. SMITH Detroit, Mich. DR. MARY F. WARING Chicago, Illinois Sallie W. Stewart is after the Committee of 300 AGAIN! THIS IS AN APPEAL TO DO YOUR UTMOST IN THE HOLD-UP! --REACH THE PEAK-- In this envelope you will find the report of the drive which I conducted for the Douglass Home Cottage at Oakland and it shows just what each state did in that effort. If the women appointed will organize the penny-drive and carry it out as outlined, no city will report less than five hundred dollars in this drive. No matter what other folks are doing, let us do our own work this one time. I have selected forty-two cities which I am sure will reach "The THOUSAND DOLLAR MARK" if they carry out these efforts as outlined in the Hold-Up Bulletin. These cities have a great many Negroes, but this does not say that some smaller city or some city with fewer Negroes might not do the same. These cities are as follows: Birmingham Montgomery Little Rock Los Angeles Denver Washington D.C. Jacksonville Miami Atlanta Chicago Indianapolis Des Moines Kansas City, K. Louisville New Orleans Boston Detroit Jackson Vicksburgh Kansas City, Mo. Jersey City New York Buffalo Durham Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo St.Louis Youngstown Muskogee Oklahoma City Pittsburg Philadelphia Nashville San Antonio Ft. Worth Dallas Houston Richmond Charleston Madison Memphis If there are several members of the committee in the same city, get together on the drive and push this effort over to success. Each city on this list should have at least one hundred workers out on May 27. If you do you will have more than a thousand dollars for the drive. All smaller cities should aim at $500 or more according to the workers they can put out. Make your plans; get the bags made; district your city; get the workers ready. Try to have your plan perfected in its entirety by the tenth of May at the latest. Advertise as many times as possible. I have written every colored newspaper in the country and they know about the drive. Solicit further advertisement from them. Report your fund directly to me as soon as possible. WE WISH TO HAND A GREAT BIG $25,000 CHECK TO THE NATIONAL! WORK! DON'T LET ANY GRASS GROW UNDER YOUR FEET! FUND FOR MARY B. TALBERT COTTAGE Oakland, California Sallie W. Stewart, Director of Drive 1. Alabama $ 432.30 2. Arizona 61.04 3. Arkansas 117.20 4. California 75.70 5. Colorado 7.00 6. Connecticut 10.50 7. Delaware 34.40 8. District of Columbia 61.00 9. Florida 181.00 10. Georgia 91.00 11. Illinois 53.02 12. Indiana 1004.21 13. Iowa 50.00 14. Kansas 198.15 15. Kentucky 623.71 16. Louisiana 26.00 17. Maryland 27.00 18. Massachusetts 19. Michigan 592.55 20. Minnesota 21. Mississippi 162.61 22. Missouri 381.20 23. Montana 23.54 24. New Jersey 379.38 25. New York 100.00 26. North Carolina 110.00 27. Ohio 170.65 28. Oklahoma 50.00 29. Oregon 82.00 30. Pennsylvania 803.40 31. Rhode Island 73.50 32. South Carolina 70.05 33. Tennessee 138.64 34. Texas 65.35 35. Utah 25.00 36. Virginia 337.10 37. West Virginia 100.00 38. Washington and Vicinity 100.00 39. Washington State 51.95 40. Wyoming 41. Wisconsin 21.20 Collection 83.00 Spoons 336.65 $7311.00 N. A. C. W. HOLD-UP May 14 - 27, 1939 YOU WILL NEED TO READ EVERY WORD OF EACH LEAFLET IN THIS ENVELOPE ----GENERATE SOME ENTHUSIASM If you have not sent in your one hundred dollars, it is most probable that you are needing some help in raising it. If you have never raised five hundred dollars in your life, accept this project, follow directions, and give yourself a thrill. IT HAS BEEN DONE -- YOU CAN DO IT TOO! POSSIBILITIES OF THIS PLAN Work done in each of five cities in 42 states This makes 210 cities. $500 from each city would amount to $105,000. This is the possibility of the N.A.C.W. HOLD-UP. This is a conservative estimate. DON'T SIT IDLY BY AND LET THIS CHANCE PASS -- LET'S DO IT! IF YOU FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN IN THIS BULLETIN, YOU WILL GET ALL THE MONEY YOU NEED! I SAY THIS WITH ASSURANCE, BECAUSE THE PLAN HAS BEEN TRIED -- I TRIED IT MYSELF -- I KNOW IT WILL WORK! The plan is so simple that you might wish to scoff at it; but don't you dare scoff -- I tell you I have tried it. We gathered $447 in Evansville, a city of one hundred thousand people; we used 57 workers. You can do this and more. FOLLOW DIRECTIONS -- FOLLOW DIRECTIONS -- FOLLOW DIRECTIONS THE TIME -- May 14 through May 27 THREE EFFORTS 1. A PUBLIC MEETING 2. A SUBSCRIPTION DINNER 3. "The N.A.C.W. HOLD-UP" -- PENNY DRIVE The subscription dinner and the public meeting are to precede the Penny Drive. This drive is to be held on the same day all over the country, but the dinner and the public meetings may be set on the day that suits each city best. The subscription dinner and public meeting will give excellent opportunity for advertising the Penny Drive. Everybody all together on May 27 for the Penny Drive. If your other efforts have not netted you success, do not be discouraged, but take heart for here is a sure plan for the money. N. A. C. W. HOLD-UP May 14-27, 1939 When the National Council of Women raised its one hundred thousand dollars for the Chicago Century of Progress meeting in 1933, all we had to do was to get our women to go to the Postal telegraph office in the various cities and register, simply sign their names. But it netted the National Council $100,000. Very simple procedure, wasn't it? A million of our women signed their names. THIS SHOWS WHAT NUMBERS CAN DO A penny apiece from twelve million Negroes will amount to $120,000. Will we prove too indolent to go out after it? Will we prove that we are too skeptical to try a plan that is presented? Then again while we are out walking trying to collect one penny from each of the twelve million Negroes, we shall not fail to knock at the doors of the many white inhabitants who will gladly give us a penny. You will pass them as you go, so ask them also. You will find great joy and pleasure in this effort. May will be warm and it will prove a great lark to all who participate. But, oh how happy you will be when you have a half bushel basket of pennies to count. MATERIALS SENT FOR THE DRIVE Make use of every bit of material that has been sent you for the drive. Send it to other club women. Engross yourself in this matter until you talk of it day and night. Urge everybody to help. Compel them by your earnestness and persuasion. Send for any of the materials mentioned below. They will be sent immediately after your request is received. 1. Pins for N.A.C.W. that can be sold for 50 cents 2. Pins for N.A.C.G. that can be sold for 50 cents 3. Histories that can be sold for $1.50 4. Plenty of subscription blanks 5. Circulars to help to arouse interest 6. Hand books of instructions Write at once for your supply of these materials. N. A. C. W. HOLD-UP May 14-27, 1939 INSTRUCTIONS AND FINAL APPEAL The time for the N.A.C.W. Hold-Up is May 14 to 27 Three activities to be carried out 1. Public Meeting 2. Subscription Dinner 3. N.A.C.W. HOLD-UP -- Penny Drive Two other pamphlets are in this envelope with this bulletin and they give you instructions how to conduct a Penny Drive and also give some suggestions on the subscription dinner and the public meeting. Read these carefully. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS It is well to approach the Mayor of your city and get his endorsement of your effort and make publicity in the local papers so that all citizens will know positively that on May 27 your workers will knock at their doors for one penny. That may also be taken from pedestrians as you pass them in the street. Some persons in our drive stood on busy corners and gathered their pennies that way. ADVERTISE This is the keynote to the success of the penny drive. Advertise. It makes it positively simple and saves the explanation that people want when they give assistance to any cause. If the citizens of your town have been informed so that they know that on Saturday, May 27, some of your members will call at their doors and asks for one penny, they will be ready and your solicitors will have little or no talking to do. In most every case the person answering the door will say, "Here are pennies for everyone in our family; we have been waiting for you to call." Begin now and advertise in the daily papers; use some hand bills if you care to. Let the announcement appear in the papers as many times as possible. Say something in the paper about the Penny Drive for at least three weeks before it comes off. Advertise the effort as the "N.AC.W., HOLD-UP." Let the public know that we are out to hold up the public for this penny. N. A. C. W. HOLD-UP May 14-27, 1939 ORGANIZE Make all your plans definite. Begin to organize for the N.A.C.W. HOLD-UP! Use paper and pencil to make your plans and do not trust your memory for all the details that are needed in connection with this effort. Write it all down and then go to your plans, once they are made. Try to have at least fifty workers; more if you can get them. Urge the club women to set aside this day, May 27, for the Penny Drive. Try to persuade them to get their home duties ahead, set aside this day and give it entirely to raising funds for the National. Have a special meeting place and a time to start for the Penny Drive. In large cities it would be well to have more than one central meeting place so that the workers would not have to walk too far from their centers of activity. You might say, "Why make these little bags to get the money in? Why can't we use our purses?" Well, the little bags add uniformity and it points out and signalizes the workers; it is lots of fun. Two persons working the same street together are company for each other. Ten blocks out one street, then turn and work ten blocks back on the next parallel street to the central meeting place is a good and fair territory for one person to cover in the morning and a similar amount in the afternoon. A bright colored badge worn by the workers adds to the success of the effort. It could be made of paper holding some such information as this N.A.C.W. HOLD -- UP A PENNY FROM EVERY CITIZEN Now are we ready, if so, let's go. The other two pamphlets give definite instructions as to how to conduct the Penny Drive and suggestions about the public meeting and the subscription dinner. Do all three of the efforts and see if you will not have reason for rejoicing. Send in your money as soon as you get your pennies counted. Start your preparations at once. Enlist every woman you can to help you. Send for any of the materials that you want. This bulletin comes to you from Sallie W. Stewart, 800 Lincoln Avenue, who is not yet quite walking without crutches, but who will drop all these impediments and run around Boston if we get definite and active co-operation from the women of the National. Meet me in Boston. How to Conduct a Penny Drive Select ten teams, ten persons to a team (more or less if your city is large or small). District your city. Use block system or take it up and down one long street by each team. It is easier to assign two persons to a long street up and down both sides that it is to divide the city into blocks. Make one hundred small muslin bags (one for each worker) four inches by eight inches with draw strings or handles. Bags may be made from unbleached muslin or flour sacks. Provide a bag for each worker. Each captain and her workers will work about five parallel streets; more streets if they are very short. Have regular or central meeting place for all teams if city is not so large. Several places if the city is large. Each captain and her team will work the streets assigned from one end to the other. Knock at every door and ask for one cent for every member of the family. Each team will gather between forty and fifty dollars. Knock at every door whether white or colored. Most Important Several times during the week before the drive begins, advertise in the daily papers telling the whole story and what the collecting is for. Then send the workers out. You will have a half bushel basket of pennies from a medium sized city. If your city is large and you have one hundred workers you can easily get a thousand dollars. This plan works absolutely in proportion to the number of workers you have out. Eight o'clock in the morning is the best time to meet and have your workers in the field by nine o'clock. One plan is to work until noon and have lunch and reports from the workers and then go out again for the afternoon. Fair weather is best for this effort and it is well to wait until the spring time to have the penny drive. Girls as young as twelve years may be used to conduct the penny drive. Persons give older girls and women more. Some sort of prize may be offered to the woman or girl bringing in the most toward the fund. The success of the penny drive is organization. Spend two or three weeks organizing this little scheme and if you have one hundred workers and do every house you are sure to have a thousand dollars. This method of raising money is absolute. It was tried by me in Evansville, Indiana. In our drive fifty seven women and girls went and gathered in $447 in one day in pennies. At that time they did not cover the entire city. At that time Evansville had about one hundred thousand inhabitants. We had a half bushel basket almost full of pennies with a few dimes, quarters, halves, and dollars thrown in. S. W. S. The Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, Inc. Affiliated with NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN Contributions and endowments solicited and used as stipulated TRUSTEES: Mrs. Nettie L. Napier President 120 15th Avenue, North Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart Secretary 800 Lincoln Ave. Evansville, Ind. Miss Meta Pelham Custodian of Funds 1157 W. Hancock Ave. Detroit, Mich Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Florida Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Ohio Mrs. S. Joe Brown, Iowa Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, Dist. of Col. Mrs. W. Sampson Brooks, Texas Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, Virginia ADVISORY BOARD: Mrs. Addie W. Dickerson, Penn. Miss Roberta J. Dunbar, Rhode Island Mrs. M. E. Josenburger, Arkansas Miss Georgia Nugent, Kentucky Mrs. J. F. Pierce, Tennessee Mrs. Fredericka D. Perry, Missouri Mrs. Charlotte H. Brown, N. Carolina Mrs. R. R. Moton, Alabama Mrs. M. E. Burrell, New Jersey Mrs. Nellie W. Greene, Oklahoma Dr. Mary F. Waring, Illinois HONORARY: Dr. Francis J. Grimke Mr. Whitfield McKinlay Hon. J. C. Napier SOUVENIR COMMITTEE: Mrs. Fredericka D. Perry, Chairman Miss Roberta J. Dunbar ROAD COMMITTEE: Mrs. M. E. Josenburger, Chairman Mrs. Addie W. Dickerson Miss Georgia Nugent Mrs. Nettie L. Napier Mrs. R. R. Moton Mrs. M. E. Burrell Mrs. Nellie W. Greene Dr. Mary F. Waring Mrs. J. F. Pierce GROUNDS COMMITTEE: Miss Meta Pelham, Chairman Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune Mrs. S. Joe Brown Mrs. Charlotte H. Brown Miss Hallie Q. Brown Miss Nannie H. Burroughs Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart Mrs. W. Sampson Brooks Mrs. Maggie L. Walker TO BE CARRIED ON IN EVERY CITY WHERE WE CAN SECURE WORKERS THREE EFFORTS FOR THE WEEKS MAY 14 TO MAY 27, 1939 Three Efforts 1... Public Meeting, explaining the work, etc. 2... Subscription Dinner .. speakers, pleasantries 3... PENNY DRIVE .. Collecting a penny from every Negro in the country and from as many other friends as possible. THE N.A.C.W's FIRST BIENNIAL "HOLD-UP" PUBLIC MEETING This meeting should be planned to give publicity and information to the work of the National; to welcome new clubs that the organizers have gotten together and to advertise the National Association of Colored Women. You know your own community and you can tell better than I can the nature of a meeting that would draw a crowd and interest the general public. There could be some contests arranged to be carried out by the N.A.C.G.'s or debates or other programs. The main idea is to interest all the women and have a general attendance. Then too there could be speakers who would review the work of the National, the 1895 organization in Boston; tell why we are going to Boston for this meeting, etc. Talk it up and advertise it from now on until the time of the meeting May 14. Get your date set, your place of meeting arranged and advertised before some other organization in your town takes that date. SUBSCRIPTION DINNER This dinner is aimed to be a pleasantry for the women members themselves. It can be made a big and grand affair. There should be no less than two hundred seated if your city is a reasonable size. There should be more in very large places. Just think of the Negro women of the country sitting down to a banquet dinner in the interest of their own work once in a life time, all at once. Bring other interesting people. Solicit the food. Solicit the preparation of it so that the subscription price paid by the women will be clear. Invite others than your club members to dine with you at this time. Use your own initiative to make it pleasant and enjoyable. PENNY DRIVE -- N.A.C.W HOLD-UP This is to be on Saturday, May 27 all over the country. I have tried this stunt in Evansville and in one day we gathered $447 in pennies. It can be done if it is well planned and carried out. First those conducting it must make up their minds and devote the day to it. Women or girls may be used to do it. Inclosed are instructions as to just exactly how to carry out the penny drive. If we could get one penny each from the twelve million Negroes in this country, we would have $120,000. You know that no one would object to giving us a penny, but the thing is to make the plan to get this done all in one day. Think what a glorious success we shall have if all will do as well as I know it can be done in one day. Let's get together and do this one feat this time. Please, please, do not fail. The state president will sound the alarm for the entire state and urge one person in each city to guide the week's program through, preferably the city president. The whole success depends upon direct planning. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN, INC. Douglass Home NACW Scholarship Headquarters SYNOPSIS EXPLAINIG ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES FUTURE TRENDS The National Association of Colored Women has raised the standard of home life among American Negroes by promoting the education of Negro women, by raising the moral standard, and by encouraging the best environment for the Negro child. Yours for "Lifting As We Climb", Sallie W. Stewart President, N. A. C. W. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN, INC. Organized, 1896 Incorporated, 1904 Affiliated with the National Council of Women, 1906 Affiliated with Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, Inc. 1916 National Headquarters 1114 O Street, Northwest Washington, D. C. THE ORGANIZATION Founded in 1896; for the purpose of raising to the highest plane the home life, moral standards, and civic life of the race. The organization has members in every state in the United States, in Canada, and in Africa. There are state associations in forty-four states. These State Associations are grouped into five regional associations. National Headquarters has been established at 1114 O Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. There is an executive secretary. Financial support: Dues paid by states on per capita basis. Special drives for particular efforts. Set Up of Organization Executive Board -- Officers, state and sectional presidents Board of Control -- Nine members in charge of finance Scholarship Committee -- In charge of National Scholarship Fund Headquarters Committee -- Trustees for Building National Association of Colored Girls Committee -- Directors for girls' division of the N. A. C. W. Douglass Home Board -- Control of Douglass Home. Departments: 1. Mother, Home, Child -- A representative in each state 2. Negro Women in Industry -- A representative in each state 3. National Association of Colored Girls -- A representative in each state. Standing and cooperating Committees LINES OF ACTIVITY The National Association of Colored Women probably has a greater task than any other organization with similar functions. The women have instituted industrial homes for girls and boys all over the Southland. Our women are a working class and day nurseries have been a great need in many places. The colored home is usually not large enough to admit boarders in decency and the establishment of boarding homes for colored girls has been a blessing in many cities. Scholarships are given in every state to local applicants. The contribution that the National Association of Colored Women is making to its group cannot be measured; the organization is helping to rebuild a race. Past Accomplishments The home of Frederick Douglass consists of a beautiful colonial house and fourteen acres of woodland in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. In 1916-1918 this organization provided the five thousand dollars to lift the mortgage on this home and has spent a total of thirty thousand dollars toward redemption and restoration of this property. Homestead is preserved as a shrine and place of inspiration to Negro youth of this country. $10000 of a $50000 national scholarship loan fund has been raised; this fund may be borrowed by young women in the senior or junior college years. $14000 has been paid on purchase price of headquarters. National Notes, the official organ, is in its thirty-fourth year of publication. The membership assists every other national organization in the group by moral support, by financial support, and by giving service. The National Association of Colored Women is probably the largest organized group working without remuneration for the social uplift of the race; all activities aim to reach the individual home, the mother, and the child. Only during the last four years has the organization operated with a paid executive secretary. Future Trends The future of the National Association of Colored Women points toward a narrowed program and a definite endowment fund that shall supplement the state assessments paid for financial support. This endowment would provide expert social service and industrial workers. The future program places emphasis on higher standards of home life for the mother and the child. There are unlimited possibilities for strong, conservative, and intelligent leadership through the National Association of Colored Girls. Specific Efforts 1. Standardize the Negro home. 2. Make best environment for the Negro child. 3. Train Negro girls to be industrious and artistic, gracious and deserving. 4. Raise standard of service available among Negro women. 5. Make working conditions what these women and girls deserve. Financial Obligations Assumed in Former Years Perpetual care of the home of Frederick Douglass. $50000 Scholarship Fund. Needs 1. Field workers to direct work of parent education 2. Field workers to standardize Negro home. 3. Field workers to direct National Association of Colored Girls 4. $20000 budget to carry on. 5. $10000 to landscape the Douglass Home. Fund needed to stabilize and systematize the organization, whose members, the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Negro race, would raise the standard of Negro home life and furnish the best environment for the Negro child. A Closer View For thirty-six years the National Association of Colored Women has made an attempt to show improvement in the race among moral, mental and material lines. So anxious were the members that they accepted department work covering every phase of endeavor, a program, all inclusive. During the last decade, many other national organizations have come into existence, and these for the most part specialize in one phase of welfare work and their programs include various forms of welfare work formerly attempted by the National Association of Colored Women. The National Association of Colored Women is made to feel that as mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters of the men of the race, it should narrow its functions to combating the source of the evils that give the race the unenviable place it holds in the United States. We consider our deficiencies (the source of all our ills) as entirely within the home circle; we lack something of foundation which the race, as a whole, is not receiving at the proper time during childhood; something of beauty and culture that poor environment is robbing our children of; something of an informed and careful motherhood that will be able to produce a virile race; something of the love of law and order and propriety that helps our general prosperity; something of the respect for the rights of others that would cause us to give the evidence of leadership, initiative, and the regard for leadership. Consequently, at the Hot Springs meeting, 1930, the National Association of Colored Women took the fundamental step of narrowing the functions of the organization to the two departments of (1) Mother, Home, and Child, and (2) Negro Women in Industry. Through the department of Mother, House, and Child, we would create better environment for colored children; would carry on a program of adult education for mothers and fathers; and encourage Negroes to love home, and to create home (we do not mean mansions, but places in which children may be born and have the proper cultural background). Through the department of Negro Women in Industry, we propose to organize Negro Women in Industry in this country to the end that they may know their strength, gain power, and be active to the opportunities offered them in the fields of labor, commercial arts, and other industrial pursuits. We have designated our Junior department as the National Association of Colored Girls, and we are making the work uniform throughout the states. We wish to teach these girls to be industrious and artistic, gracious and deserving. We wish to make working conditions what these girls deserve. We wish to train them to be the good mothers who in turn will maintain good homes. This organization has accepted the challenge of overcoming the handicaps which burden the race by trying to create better environment for every Negro child. Out revised constitution turns our efforts to the Negro Home. Any phase of the work that might attract us cannot miss the mark. Any improvement made will affect mother and child. It is obvious that no people could reach perfection in sixty years. While there are a few homes among us that compare favorably with the best in the neighborhoods, there are thousands that need systematic management and a touch of life and love. The organization faces these problems: Illiterate parents as a disadvantage to children Careless parents, a stumbling block to children Ignorant mothers breeders of criminal types Parents without love of the beautiful Parents without respect for law and order Children without adequate food, clothing, or shelter Children without proper recreation Children who receive no aesthetic training Children whose ambitions are stifled Mother suffering every degree of privation Homes used for every conceivable vice Children still growing on corn stalks and flopping off Lives of Negro children still offering challenges Plans are made to do this work on a broad scope looking far down into the years, and we hope with precision and system that shall not soon have to be altered. We are really organizing a crusade for the best we can afford for Negro children. Mother: Parent Education Expectant Mothers Household Management Wholesome attitude, getting out from home occasionally Health -- T. B. -- Other Diseases Home: Cleanliness -- Orderliness -- Beauty Home Ownership Civic Asset (Do away with Negro Ghettos) Best Environment the Family can Afford Child: Best Environment School Attendance -- Religious Education Appearance (Cleanliness) Appearance at School Safe - guarded Helping the Handicapped (Socially, mentally, physically) Encouraging the Quick Health -- T. B. -- Public Health Service (Use of) The organization is encouraging "Buy Your Home" clubs, and attacking unsightly blocks where our people live. We are locating and tabulating the families of our groups. We are trying to find causes of delinquency and trying to rehabilitate; it is looking toward rehabilitation rather than toward handing out alms. We realize that we have undertaken a tremendous task, but we began anew in 1931, with a more concentrated effort in our plan of work than we have had before. We are trying to work as one women united in our thoughts and efforts. We are reconsecrating ourselves to the raising of the standard of home life, so that in spite of poverty we may stress orderliness, cleanliness, and a love for the beautiful in everyday life. HEADQUARTERS Headquarters of the National Association of Colored Women is located at 1114 O Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. Through this central location and with the help of an executive secretary, the Association furnishes speakers for clubs and speakers on subjects concerning Negro women for outside groups, both white and colored. The programs planned and outlined by each department head, bulletins, sample programs, reports of state organizations, are compiled here for distribution. Information on the work of Negro women is here for distribution. Handbooks, outlines, buttons, pins and general paraphernalia used by the National Association of Colored Women and by the National Association of Colored Girls are distributed from this office. National Notes is published and distributed from headquarters. The Executive Secretary keeps in touch with press, radio, and magazines, and with other groups. Contents of Notes Editorials Articles Department reports Correspondence Comment Criticism - Commendation News of the Month Book Shelf Special Activities of National Special Activities of State Bodies Special Activities of Negro Women Items of National Interest Conferences are held at Headquarters; department chairmen take the lead in holding conferences. Field workers will travel out from headquarters to organize to teach the department work, to carry on projects, and to stimulate the workers. A national convention is held biennially. All matters are subject to the approval of the executive board before acceptance or adoption by the Association. In the recess of the convention the coordination is done by standing committees: Credential, Press and Publicity, Transportation, Resolutions, Constitution, and History, the action of every committee being subject to the approval of the executive board. EXPANSION Let it be known that the N. A. C. W. is constantly adding new groups of women to its ranks : fraternal women, church societies, college women, the industrial women. All may affiliate with the National Association of Colored Women without losing their identity. This organization is open to Negro women everywhere. UNIFORMITY OF THOUGHT AND ACTION The National Association of Colored Women wants to be known as the organization that is directing its every effort toward the Negro mother, home, and child. Each state must carry as its major departments (1) Mother, Home and Child, and (2) Negro Women in Industry. Each state must organize a State Association of Colored Girls. Similar department work is carried on throughout the organization. State associations emphasize the same sort of programs. COOPERATION Through National Headquarters, and through the departments of Fine Arts, Business, Arts and Crafts, Phillis Wheatley, Peace, Inter-Racial, Education, and Legislation, of which departments there is a leader in each section, the N. A. C. W. cooperates with any organization whatever that is working for the uplift of mankind. Officers Mrs. Sallie W. Steward, President, 800 Lincoln Ave., Evansville, Ind. Dr. Mary F. Waring, Vice-President, 4557 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Daisy E. Lampkin, Chr. Executive Board, 2519 Webster Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. Julia West Hamilton, Treasurer, 320 You St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Miss Arsania Williams, Recording Secretary, 4318 San Francisco Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Miss Marie Baker, Recording Secretary, 90 W. Illinois Ave., Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Jessie C. Grayson, Recording Secretary, 971 Twenty-first St., Portland, Ore. Mrs. Mame E. Josenberger, Sec'y. to Ex. Bd., 708 Eleventh St., Fort Smith, Arkansas Dr. Ida Mac Myller, Chaplain, 332 W. Twenty-fifth St., Indianapolis, Indiana Mrs. C. S. Smith, Parliamentarian, 3517 Townsend St., Detroit, Mich. Mrs. J. E. Johnson, Statistician, Prentiss, Mississippi Board of Control Chairman -- Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart, 800 Lincoln Ave., Evansville, Ind. Dr. Mary F. Waring, 4557 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois Mrs. Daisy E. Lampkin, 2519 Webster Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. Julia West Hamilton, 320 You St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Fla. Mrs. Myrtle Foster Cook, 2436 Montgall Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Esther Jones Lee, 1600 Tylor St., Berkeley, California Mrs. Cora Allen, 1514 Hochkiss St., Shreveport, Louisiana Mrs. Jane Porter Barrett, Peak's Turnout, Virgini[a] National Chairmen Frederick Douglass Historical and Memorial Association -- Mrs. Nettie L. Napier, 120 Fifteenth Ave., N. Nashville, Tennessee Scholarship Committee -- Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Homewood Cottage, Wilberforce, Ohio Headquarters Committee -- Mrs. Rebecca Styles Taylor, Savannah, Georgia National Association of Colored Girls Committee -- Mother, Home, Child -- Mrs. Lissie Fouse, 219 North Upper St., Lexington, Kentucky Negro Women in Industry -- Mrs. Ella P. Stewart, 566 Indiana Ave., Toledo, Ohio State Supervisors for National Association of Colored Girls -- Mrs. Mildred W. Boone, 213 North Eighth Street, Columbia, Missouri Cooperating Committees: Fine Arts -- Mrs. Daisy Stocking, Box 1614, Daytona Beach, Florida Business -- Mrs. T. J. Novins, 2526 Newstand Ave., St. Louis, Missouri Arts and Crafts -- Mrs. Minnie Patterson, 3818 Langley Ave., Chicago, Illinois Phillis Wheatley -- Miss Jane Hunter, 4450 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, Ohio Inter-Racial -- Mrs. H. L. McCrory, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N. C. Peace -- Mrs. A. B. DeMent, 708 S. E. Fourth Ave., Mineral Wells, Texas Education -- Mrs. Emily Williams, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama Legislation -- Mrs. Anna E. Murray, 934 S St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Standing Committees: Credential -- Mrs. Lillian Jones Brown, 2018 N. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana Press and Publicity -- Mrs. Francis Coston, 2718 Shriever Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana Transportation -- Mrs. Ollie Redd, 1918 Oneil Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming Resolutions -- Mrs. A. H. Douglass, 26 Thomas Street, Newark, N. J. Constitution -- Mrs. Elizabeth Carter Brooks, 908 Dawson St., San Antonio, Texas History -- Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsey Davis, 3710 Indiana Ave., Chicago, Illinois An Important Convention The Fourth Bi-annual Convention of the Northwestern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will be held at Cheyenne, Wyo., July 19th to 21st inclusive. It marks the tenth anniversary of its organization and is its final session as the Northwestern Federation now exists. It is remarkable in that by its division into three sectional federations of the National Association of Colored Women, the Northwestern, S Southwestern and Central, it will mean that the Northwestern is giving larger service to the National. It will mean more trained women in immediate service, more frequent contact between the women of each new section and a unifying of sectional strength according to the peculiar problems and needs. It will give three times as many women a chance to prepare for leadership. We are hoping that the States in these sections will be largely represented at this convention to participate in the closing rites of the Northwestern and the formation of the three new sections. Mrs. Bethune our National President, Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Mrs. Cora C. Horne, Mrs. Myrtle Foster Cook and Mrs. Sallie Stewart have expressed their intention to be present. The influence of these women of National and international note, will be felt in this convention to the advantage of large numbers of women who have not had the opportunity to attend a sectional federation or the National. Experts on departmental work done by the women will be on hand to discuss subjects vital to our progress. Among them will be Franklin Nichols of New York, representing the American Hygiene Association. The program will not be overcrowded. A resume of the ten years' work accomplished will be told by the delegates and will be inspiring. Read the report of the Committee on Sectional Divisions of the National, in the February National Notes, and thus inform yourselves of the plan adopted and the new divisions mapped out. The wide-awake women of Cheyenne under the leadership of Mrs. Ollie Hopkins Redd, Vice President of the Northwestern are busy preparing for your coming. All Cheyenne is assisting the Searchlight Club which will be host to the occasion. Their hospitality is unexcelled. The Governor of Wyoming will welcome you to the city at the opening session. The Mayor of the city has placed himself at the disposal of th committee. The women of Cheyenne know how to put things over. it is yo[u] job to see them do it. The Local Committee asks for your names at onc[e] in order to make reservations for seats at the Frontier Day celebratio[n] They are often sold out a month ahead of time. Don't miss it. The women of the East will leave Chicago about a week ahead of time in order to visit the clubwomen en route, along the Rock Island Lines. Further information gladly given on inquiry at the General Off Please give as much publicity to the meeting as possible. Cordially yours, [*Joanna Snowden-Porter*] President. [*Emily Overall*], Cor. Secy. 4131, Calumet Ave., Chicago State President N.A.C.W. Alabama - Mrs. Hill Gibbs, 230 W. Jeff Davis Avenue Arizona - Mrs. Emme F. Gardner, 1229 E. Washington Street Arkansas - Mrs. Beatrice Kahn, 1020 W. Second St. Pine Bluff California - Mrs. Ada Jackson, 1918 Chestnut St. Oakland Colorado - Mrs. Lillian F. Bondurant, 2241 Marion St., Denver Connecticut - Mrs. Lossie Brown, 131 Bristol St. New Haven Dis. of Columbia - Mrs. Grace L. Jackson, 1801 New Jersey Ave. N.W. Washington Florida - Mrs. Alice J. Mickens, 801 Fourth Ave. West Palm Beach Georgie - Mrs. A.S. Clark, Gillespie College, Cordele Illinoise - Mrs. Hannah Woods, 202 E. Oak St. Carbondale Indiana - Mrs. Lena Harris, 2255 Washington St. Gary Iowa - Mrs. ALberta A. McGinthy, 508 E. Mass. Ave., Mason City Kansas - Mrs. Benella R. Lee, 937 Freeman Ave., Kansas City Kentucky - Mrs. Etta Blanton, 200 Blanton St., Frankfort Louisianna - Mrs. M.E. May, 1222 Norma, Shreveport Maryland - Mrs. Fannie N. Briscoe, Oella St., Route 1, Box 37, Ellicott Massachusetts - Mrs. Susie F. Jones, 45 Waumbeck, Roxbury Michigan - Mrs. F.E. Dawson, 18573 Wexford Ave., Detroit Minnesota - Mrs. Josephine Hogan, 373 Harrington Ave., St. Paul Mississippi - Mrs. M.N. Hubert, 1088 Lynch Drive, Jackson Missouri - Mrs. Clara E. Adams, 2521 Park St., Kansas City temporarily, or 2218 E Street Sacramento Cal. Montana - Mrs. Armeta Smith Suncan, 715 W. Park St. Butte Nebraska - Mrs. Sara Walker, 2203 Charles St., Omaha New Jersey - Mrs. Omega Mason, 26 Olive St., Salem New Mexico - Mrs. A.J. Clayton, 713 E. Garfield, Albuquerque New York - Mrs. Cecily S. Gunner, Hillburn North Carolina - Mrs. Minnie Pearson, 808 Fayelleville Ave., Durham Ohio - Mrs. Lulu McClure, 6320 Chandler Ave., Cinc innati Oklahoma - Mrs. Lula E. Kiff, 904 E. Sixth St., Muskogee Oregon - Mrs. Pollyanna Reed, 57 N.E. Cherry St., Portland Pennsylvania - Mrs. Adelaide Fleming, 1506 Catherine St., Philadelphia Rhode Island - Mrs. FLorence Lopez, 10 Prospect St., East Providence South Carolina - Mrs. Leona McMillan, R2 Box 89, Bamberg Tennessee - Mrs. Frances J. Pierce, Girls Industrial School, Nashville Texas - Mrs. F.E. Brackeen, 1001 Humbolt, Ft. Worth Utah - Mrs. Jennie Offutt, 175 E. 8th. St. South Salt Lake City Virginia - Mrs. Wanze Bagnall Webb, 2516 Corprov Ave., Norfolk Washington - Mr s. Verne Evans, 509 E. Rich St., Spokane Washington and Vicinity - Mrs. Julia West Hamilton, 320 Yon St., N.W. Washington, D.C. Wisconsin - Mrs. Mamie Anderson, 11 S. Brook St., Madison Wyoming - Mrs. Hattie Jefferson, 510 W. 19th. St., Cheynne Sectional Presidents Northeastern--Miss Roberta Dunbar, 77 Winter St., Providence, Rhode Island Southern - Mrs. Bertha Johnson, Prentiss Institute, Prentiss Miss. Central - Mrs. S. Joe Brown, 1058 Fifth Street, Des Moines, Iowa Northwestern - Mrs. J.B. Samuels, 2214 Wetmore Avenue, Everette, Washington Southwestern - Miss Annie Gillum, 1003 Arch Street, Little Rock, Arkansas NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN, INC. WHERE TO SEND MONEY These changes due to illness of Mrs. Minnie Scott. Until June 4, after which time we shall operate out of Chicago until the national meeting. Send all dues to Mrs. Julia West Hamilton, Treasurer 320 You Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. Mark plainly what the money is for: National Dues National Notes National Drive -- (one of four efforts Other Information address Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart, President N. A. C. W. 800 Lincoln Avenue Evansville, Indiana Suggested follow-up news story on signature campaign to be used the second day of the campaign in local communities. Similar stories should be inserted daily during the height of the campaign, always with a picture of women participating in the drive, if possible. From: National Council of Women 4 Park Avenue New York, N. Y. Local club women yesterday launched auspiciously a campaign to secure the local quota of ____ (Insert number) in a drive for one million signatures of American women which the National Council of Women of the United States is inaugurating simultaneously in thousands of communities. Petitions have been addressed to foreign governments asking them to send their most representative women to the United States for a Congress which the National Council is sponsoring in connection with the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition in 1933, and the impressive total of one million signatures will, it is believed, insure the presence of women of the highest distinction. According to _____(Insert name of local chairman), clubwomen of this city have entered into the project with the greatest enthusiasm and _____(Insert number) signatures were obtained during the day. The first woman to sign was _____(Insert name). Other signatures followed rapidly upon the first, and prominent local women who enrolled included: (Insert names) _____(Insert name) was in charge yesterday at the local Postal Telegraph-Cable Company office at _____(Insert address) where signatures are being obtained. Her assisting committee was made up of _____(Insert names). Local women's organizations will alternate in assuming responsibility for the signature drive. _____(Give name of organization) is in charge today with _____(Insert name) as chairman and the following committee: (Insert names) The National Council's campaign to secure 1,000,000 signatures is meeting with enthusiastic endorsement from many of the major women's organizations of the country, who see in the coming International Congress an effective means of promoting good-will among nations. Each of the 21 organizations affiliated with the Council and participating in the drive, has been assigned a quota of signatures equivalent to its membership and each local community has a quota equivalent to the aggregate membership of all local affiliated organizations. The local signature quota, which club women expect to achieve by May first, is _____(Insert quota). Local organizations participating in the campaign are: (Add list) Suggested News Story for release in each local community at the beginning of the signature campaign; blanks should be filled with local information. From National Council of Women 4 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. A campaign to secure 1,000,000 signatures to petitions addressed to foreign governments seeking the attendance of representative women at an International Congress in connection with the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition in 1933, is being inaugurated by clubwomen in thousands of communities throughout the United States today. According to _____(Insert name of local chairman), who is in charge of the campaign in this city, the project is the largest cooperative effort in which clubwomen of the United States have ever engaged. The National Council of Women, with which 21 of the leading women's organizations of the United States are affiliated, and of which Miss Lena Madesin Phillips of New York City is President, is sponsoring the plan. "We know of no more effective way to promote friendly international relations" said _____(Insert name of local chairman), "than to gather together women from all parts of the world to discuss their problems in an open forum. It is sure to be productive of a spirit of understanding and good will. We believe it will mobilize the sentiment of women all over the world for peace and right relationships among nations. Because we are anxious to secure the presence at this Congress of women of the highest attainment, we are preparing these petitions which will be addressed to their several governments. One million signatures, we believe, will be sufficiently impressive to convince them of the importance of the Congress." _____(Insert name of local chairman) added that the signature campaign was but one phase of the plans for the participation of women in the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition. Another important project will be research into what organized womanhood has accomplished throughout the United States. This will constitute the subject matter of a book on the progress of women to be published at the time of the Exposition. The National Council of Women controls all the space which will be assigned to exhibits from women's non-technical organizations. Twenty-four hundred square feet of floor space in the Social Science Building have been assigned for demonstration of what women's organizations have accomplished along cultural, educational and welfare lines in the past one hundred years. However, the International Congress will be the most dramatic feature of feminine participation in the Century of Progress, and clubwomen through the United States are concentrating upon the 1,000,000 signatures which will make this Congress possible. Postal Telegraph-Cable Company offices throughout the country will be the headquarters for obtaining the signatures _____(Insert name of local chairman) announced. Special registration books have been provided in this city are located at _____(Insert address of Postal Telegraph office or offices). Each local organization has been assigned a quota of signatures. At the close of the campaign the cover of the loose leaf register will be presented as a souvenir to the organization which makes the best showing. _____(Insert name of local chairman) has announced the committee which will assist her in the signature campaign. It is made up of: (Add local names, giving also the name of the organization which each woman represents.) Honorary Presidents Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Mrs. Elizabeth Carter Brooks, Miss Hallio Q. Brown, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, *Mrs. Lucy Thurman, *Mrs. Josephine Silone Yates, *Mrs. Mary B. Talbot, *Mrs. Margaret Murry Washington State Presidents Alabama — Mrs. R. R. Moton, Tuskegee Arkansas — Mrs. A. O. B. Raines, 2118 Cross St., Little Rock Arizona — Mrs. L. Shirley Polk, 16 N. Ninth, Phoenix California — Mrs. J. M. Edwards, 1330 E. 17, Los Angeles Colorado — Mrs. Lula M. Gudgell, 720 E. Morena St., Colorado Springs Connecticut — Miss Minnie J. Bradley, 93 Eaton St., New Haven Delaware — Mrs. Mary Henry Whitten, 707 West 7th St., Wilmington District of Columbia — Mrs. Marie Madre Marshall, 2035 13th St., N.W., Washington Florida — Mrs. H. G. Andrews, 511 Clay St., Jacksonville Georgia — Mrs. Florence Hunt, Fort Valley Idaho — With the Northwestern Illinois — Mrs. Annette Officer, 2114 Missouri Ave., E. St. Louis Iowa — A. Alexander, 2901 Fifth Ave., Des Moines Indiana — Mrs. Lessie C. Jones, 101 N. Barker Ave., Evansville Kansas — Mrs. Camille Briggs, 938 S. Fifth St., Atchison Kentucky — Mrs. Ora K. Glass, 836 Clay St., Henderson Louisiana — Mrs. Cora M. Allen, 1514 Hochkiss St., Shreveport Maryland — Mrs. M. L. Gaines, 1522 McCulloch St., Baltimore Massachusetts — Mrs. Minnie Wright, 176 Walnut St., Roxbury Michigan — Mrs. Kate Johnson, 615 E. Canfield Ave. Detroit Montana — Mrs. Emma Harris, 3311 Montana Ave., Billings Minnesota — Mrs. Mable Harris, 445 Kent St., St. Paul Missouri — Mrs. Marie B. Stewart, Sodalia Nebraska — Mrs. Daisy Gordon, 1111 High St., Beatrice New Mexico — Mrs. G. H. Byas, 1400 S. Walter St., Alberquerque Mississippi — Mrs. L. C. Jefferson, 816 Monroe Blvd., Vicksburg Nevada — With the Southwestern New Jersey — Mrs. Armita H. Douglass, 26 Thomas St., Newark New York — Mrs. Bessie H. Payne, 452 Mott Ave., New York City North Carolina — Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Palmer Memorial College, Sedalia Ohio — Mrs. Lethia C. Fleming, 2342 E. 40th St., Cleveland Oklahoma — Mrs. L. Elliott Hutton, Sapulpa Oregon — Mrs. Dolly Paries, 975 Bothwick St., Portland Pennsylvania Rhode Island — Mrs. Florence Lopez, 57 John St., Providence South Carolina — Mrs.Etta D. Rowe, 111 Treadwell St., Orangeburg Tennessee — Mrs. J. Frances Pierce, 122 Fillmore St., Nashville Utah — Mrs. Jennie Offutt, 810 S. First St., West Salt Lake City Virginia — Washington — Mrs. Alice Howard, 232 Twenty-third Ave. North, Seattle West Virginia — Mrs. A. L. Spaulding, 510 Morris St., Charleston Wisconsin — Mrs. Nellie Lane, 814 Mound St., Madison Washington D. C. and Vicinity — Mrs. Julia West Hamilton, 320 You St. N. W. Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, no State Federation Sectional Presidents Northeastern — Mrs. Carter Books, 908 Dawson St., San Antonio, Texas Southeastern — Mrs. Ora Brown Stokes, 1607 Brook Road, Richmond, Va. Central — Mrs. Lillian J. Brown, 2018 Capitol Ave. North, Indianapolis, Indiana Southwestern — Lately entrusted to Mrs. Elizabeth St. Charles Edwards, 1330 E. 17th St., Los Angeles, California Northwestern — Mrs. J. B. Samuels, 2214 Wetmere Ave., Everett, Washington DEADLINE RELEASE.......10 WOMEN VOW FIGHT ON D. C. JIMCROW BY ALICE A. DUNNIGAN WASHINGTON__(ANP)—The Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs, Inc., meeting here last week went on record as giving whole-hearted support to Mrs. Mary Church Terrell in her fight to abolish discrimination from the capitol of the Nation. The Federation recommended that representatives from each of the states in the Northeastern Region pledge their support to the Coordination Committee to Abolish Segregation in D. C., of which Mrs. Terrell is president. The Federation also went on record as opposing radio and television shows as well as motion pictures which portray the stereotype Negro. The delegates agreed to boycott the products of companies sponsoring such shows as the "Amos and Andy" show and the "Beulah" show. They also approved resolutions calling for Home Rule in the District of Columbia and for integration in public schools. The Federation expressed its approval of the department of defense in integrating Negro troops in Korea, and called for an immediate end of segregation in every phase of the armed forces. It agreed to send letters of approval to the National Negro Business League for opening its headquarters in the District of Columbia. About 150 delegates representing seven states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia – met in Washington last week for the 55th annual convention of the Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs, an affiliate of the National Association of Colored Women. The theme of the meeting was "Achieving Our Goals, Through Education, – Family Life – and Community Upright." Officers elected were: President, Miss Susie F. Jones, Brooklyn; Vice Presidents, Mrs. Inez W. Tinsley, Mrs. Viola Mason, Mrs. Lillian Hines, Mrs. Rosa L. Weller, Mrs. Rosa L. Daniels, Mrs. Naomi Y. Hatcher, Mrs. Lucy A. Robinson, and Mrs. Mary E. C. Gregory. Mrs. Dora N. Lee, N. Y., was reelected chairman of the executive board Mrs. Melnea Cass, recorfing secretary; Miss Beatrice Coleman, assistant financial secretary; Mrs. S. Ellwn Wilson, treasurer; Mrs. Bessie Payne, parliamentarian; Mrs. Carrie Satterwhite, statistician; Mrs. Ethel J. Minton, organizer; Mrs. Margaret Caution, statistician; Mrs. Viola P. Allen, historian; Mrs. Jessie Moore, chaplain; Mrs. Elizabeth C. Brooks, scholarships; Mrs. Ann W. Rice, treasurer, scholarship loan fund; and Mrs. Irene Canada, Mass., supervisor of girls. The next meeting of the Northeastern Federation will be held at Bordentown, N. J., in 1953. Among the highlights of the Washington meeting was the Town Meeting held at Howard university when Dr. Frank S. Horne, assistant to the administrator of Housing and Home Finance Agency, led the panel discussion on Housing. Mrs. Thomasina W. Norford, Minority Groups Consultant, Bureau of Employment Security, U. S. Dept. of Labor, led the panel on employment for defense production; Clarence Mitchell, director of the Washington Bureau, NAACP, spoke on legislation; and Lt. Lawrence A. Oxley, member, Executive Council of the Diocese of Washington of the Episcopal Church, talked on Church Relations. The meeting was climaxed with a banquet at the Lucy Diggs Slow hall, Friday night, when Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, president of the National Training School for Girls in Washington, D. C. extended fellowship greetings. HELD FOR MURDER OF WIFE'S AUNT JACKSON, Miss.__(ANP)—Eddie Moss Jr., 22, is being held for the murder of his wife's aunt "Sugar" Sharkey which occurred last week. The murder is said followed the separation of Moss from his wife, Mrs. Lillie Bell Moss. Moss was captured after an all-day search of the woods surrounding the Raymond-Bolton road. He had held his wife captive, but she escaped and ran to the sheriff's office. The husband was captured while riding a truck. The revolver used, a .32 Smith-Wesson was found beneath the seat of the motor vehicle. He will be charged with murder. 45 -2- (Continued from Page 1) This would normally be the end of the story, but there is more to come. For one thing, one of the victims of the police heavy-handedness, was so badly beaten that medical attention was necessary. Then Sheriff Marshall announced that no charge had been filed against either officer, but that "I am going to do everything I can to make amends." "Something wrong happened." he said. "It has never happened in the past and it is not going to happen in the future. It happened without my knowledge, sanction, approval or consent." He said he had not talked to the three victims since their release from jail. As for Underwood, the sheriff said he didn't know "what I could do to him. As for Sheffield, he's only been with the office a few months. He was following what he thought was a super-sleuth." This "super sleuth" turned out to be a parole violator from Cook county in Illinois. According to Cleveland (Miss.) Chief of Police Dempsey, Underwood had been convicted in Cook county on a charge of robbery with firearms. Meanwhile, both state and U. S. authorities have launched investigation into the incident. The FBI in Washington announced it was conducting a preliminary probe and that a report would be sent to the justice department's civil rights division for consideration. D. C. BIAS CAUSES INTERNATIONAL INSULTS BY ALICE DUNNIGAN WASHINGTON__(ANP)—The refusal of the Hecht company to serve Negroes at its basement lunch counter is now running into international implications. Two incidents involving foreigners occurred recently which perhaps made the food manager turn "red in the face." One happened when a dark skinned foreign woman took her place at the lunch counter to be served. The Negro waitresses, who have been instructed not to serve colored people, refused to take her order. Finally the manager appeared on the scene and politely informed the foreigner that it was the policy of the store not to serve Negroes. When the customer told the manager that she was not a Negro, he asked. "How should I know that?" By this time the enraged foreigner, who apparently resented being called a Negro, produced credentials to prove her nationality. With this the manager made all sorts of apologies and offered to serve her. In spite of all the apologies, the indignant foreigner said that any such policy on the part of a big department store was ridiculous. She refused to be served. Not many minutes later, an Indian woman, dressed in her native costume, took her place at the lunch counter. Although it was obvious that she was a foreigner, still she was colored and the waitress, who had been instructed not to serve colored people, also refused to serve the Indian woman. When the manager went to the waitress and demanded that she serve the Indian woman, the waitress said that before she would serve her she would quit. The manager is reported to have talked very confidentially to the Indian woman and served her, himself. When this incident was brought to the attention of the Indian Embassy, a spokesman said because of its peculiar situation in this country, it would be impossible to comment. 5010 [*Frances Williams*] A NEGRO COMMUNITY WORKS IN BEHALF OF ITS FAMILIES CONSUMER DIVISION OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION AND CIVILIAN SUPPLY OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WASHINGTON, D. C. 5010 FOREWORD This booklet is the first in a series of American Family stories designed to help build total defense in terms of the homes and the needs of every family, and the resources of every community. American families are the backbone of defense--families in cities,, in towns, and in the country; families whose earnings must be managed with penny-wise care in order to meet their minimum needs, and others whose income can easily be made to provide a decent living; families with much education and major skills, and others whose education is limited and whose skills are few; white families, Negro families, families with various nationality backgrounds. All of these families have their own particular problems in making their homes strong units in strong defense, and in carrying the added burdens which defense is placing upon them. For some families these problems are difficult indeed. In every community there are many resources for helping families to meet their problems. These resources are not fully used and many families need to learn of their existence and how to use them. In every community there are many people who want to help make their communities strong and thus to do their part in defense. They often do not know how to help. They feel that defense requires that they do something big. They need to recognize the small things which they may do that will contribute to their community and its defense. These American Family stories are written to show some of the many very practical ways in which people may strengthen the living 5010 - 2 - standards of families in their own communities by doing things in connection with their own jobs or their own activities which bring together the resources of the community and the families who need to use these resources. This booklet tells the story of a low-income, city Negro Family and its food problems. Other booklets in this series will tell the stories of other families and other problems. Harriet Elliott Associate Administrator Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply 5010 A NEGRO COMMUNITY WORKS IN BEHALF OF ITS FAMILIES The Andrews Family Illustrates One of the Major Problems This Community Faces Mrs. Andrews' husband made $10.00 a week. Mrs. Andrews was the guardian and manager of that $10.00. Not that she ever thought of herself in these terms. She simply rented a place for her husband, herself and their two children-- Robert, 11, and Nancy, 8--to live in, bought what clothes they didn't seem to be able to do without and fed the family with what was left. 1/ About the middle of each week she would make a desperate effort to see if they could make out until Saturday, payday. But usually she ended by getting an advance from the grocery man on the corner. Of course, food was higher there than at other places. 2/ Sometimes a pound of salt pork looked mighty small, but if you needed credit, you had to trade, when you had money, with the people who would help you when you didn't have money. So the weeks came and went. And part of this week's $10.00 paid for last week's living. For always she owed the grocery man. Mrs. Andrews vaguely wished she could do better, but she was tired most of the time. Her husband was a good man, cheerful and ambitious. In the years they had been married he had worked hard but never found a job paying more than $10.00. There had been bad times when he had made less than that. The children worried her. Robert was often irritable. Nancy was pale and listless. But Mrs. Andrews didn't know any way to do better, so she just went along from week to week and dreamed that some day things would be different. Then they would 1/ The Andrews family is fictional; its situation and problems are real. 2/ The grocery store was a business. The use of credit necessarily involved losses, the cost of which was distributed on the price of all goods. 5010 - 2 - have steak for dinner and bacon and eggs for breakfast. Mrs. Andrews was alone with her problems and hopes, unaware that in her community were resources, people and plans, information and activity, that were centered around these very problems and hopes. Resources Available in This Community Which the Andrews Family Had not Learned to Use 1. A radio market broadcast gave information on the best and cheapest foods to buy at particular times. The Andrews family had a radio. But Mrs. Andrews listened to the music. She had never heard the market broadcast. Mr. Andrews brought home his boss' paper every night. Mrs. Andrews read the paper and enjoyed it, but paid not particular attention to the food advertisements. After all, she and her family were poor people and these advertisements, she supposed, were for rich people. She did not think of what she might save by watching for special sales. Some stores in the community carried graded goods, so that you could tell what you were getting for your money, but Mrs. Andrews never thought about trying to compare quality and prices. She just bought the brands she was used to. Some of the foods which Mrs. Andrews bought came in packages with their weight plainly marked. But Mrs. Andrews never read the labels to see which package really gave her the most for her money. She just took the largest-looking package. There were often good sales at the corner grocery store--sacks of oranges, potatoes, onions--but the amount was usually more than she needed at the moment. She and Mrs. Jones, next door, might have bought a sack between them, and divided it, but neither Mrs. Andrews nor Mrs. Jones ever thought of that. Certain goods were always cheaper, if you bought in large quantities; for example, five pounds of rice bought at the same time were cheaper than five pounds bought at separate times. Mrs. Andrews was aware of this, but she believed these savings were impossible for her. She had such a little to spend. She did not realize that she could buy five pounds of rice one week, and the next week five pounds of spaghetti. So none of the better buying plans found their way into the habit pattern of the Andrews family. They would have meant better meals on the Andrews' table and some small savings each week. Gradually Mrs. Andrews might have worked around to where she could start the week with a larger part of the weekly pay. Planning was an art--and Mrs. Andrews had not learned to plan. 5010 - 3 - 2. A small garden could have been grown in the back yard of the rented house where the Andrews family lived. Greens, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, and other vegetables planted there might have added much to the well-being of this family. 3. Robert's teacher had said that people should have "balanced" meals and had shown the children pamphlets which told how to plan such meals. But Mrs. Andrews imagined these ideas would be very expensive. Of course, she would have liked Nancy and Robert to have the vitamins the teacher talked about, but she was confused as to which vitamins and how many they needed and she didn't know where she could find a clear and simple explanation that she would understand. In some schools in the city free school lunches were served, but not in the school which Robert and Nancy attended. A hot lunch might have done a great deal for Robert's irritability and Nancy's pallor and if enough parents had requested it, and the equipment could have been found, free lunches might have been instituted in Robert and Nancy's school. This, too, was something Mrs. Andrews didn't know. A visit to the school itself would have been profitable, for Robert's teacher would have been glad to tell Mrs. Andrews all about "balance" in diet--but as far as Mrs. Andrews knew schools were for children. It never occurred to her that the teacher might help a parent with her own problems. And she didn't want to embarrass Robert and Nancy by letting the teacher know how little their mother knew. 4. At the height of the season for home grown vegetables and fruits there were good buys for canning and preserving. A basket of peaches preserved and placed high on the shelf would prove a real treat for Sunday night supper in the winter months. Later when the tomatoes were plentiful other jars might be filled, but Mrs. Andrews never thought of December needs in July--who knew where you would be in December? Besides, jars were expensive and she didn't know enough about canning to be sure her fruit and tomatoes wouldn't spoil and be wasted. 5. There were in this city a Negro branch of the Young Women's Christian Association, an Urban League, and a local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. All of these agencies knew that one of the functions of government is to serve the people, so they had equipped themselves with pamphlets telling about various government services, and their members were participating in some of the consumer protection programs. But Mrs. Andrews never went to the Y.W.C.A., or the Urban League, or the N.A.A.C.P. 5010 -4- 6. In the state where the Andrews family lived there was a Consumer Representative on the State Defense Council, placed there not only because the officials of the Government thought this a wise plan, but also because many civic organizations had asked for such a representative. Among these organizations were: the Parent Teachers Association, the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, and the Negro Business League. This Consumer Representative would have been interested in the fact that a pound of pork bought at the corner store looked so small. He could have set in motion forces that would have ended in having the scales tested. But Mrs. Andrews didn't know that there was a public official who tested scales, or that there was a Consumer Representative, or even that she was one of the consumers he represented. 7. The Federal Government had available free pamphlets which would have given Mrs. Andrews many practical suggestions. But Mrs. Andrews did not know that her problems were problems of National Defense and that the Government wished to help her with her problems, so she never wrote the penny postal card to state her problem and ask for help. No letters and no material from Washington ever reached her door. Surrounded by these resources Mrs. Andrews continued on her way as one of a large number of American consumers who now live "below the safety line". She knew of no one who helped people learn how to live in a city, and she herself did not know where to start. It never occurred to her that the welfare of her family was related to National Defense. Yet Mrs. Andrews was definitely patriotic. She still remembered with pride her eldest brother going away to the last war. They had all gathered at the station to see him off. And although she had been quite small, she remembered the feeling they had had as they walked home and listened to her mother talking of how the country needed strong men like Ben. If she had known that her country needed her now, she would have said quickly, "Here I am." But she didn't know there was anything that poor people were supposed to do. She thought that the President and the boys called for the draft would defend the country and that defense had nothing to do with her. 5010 - 5 - Activities Fostered by Individuals and Groups in This Community Which Stirred The Andrews Family and Others Like Them to Action There were, however, citizens in this community who had a definite idea about Defense. They had seen the special issue of the Consumer's Guide on "Food and National Defense" 1/. They had heard various speakers on National Defense. They had listened to radio broadcasts on Defense. They had come to feel that defense not only builds armies, but strengthens families--all the individual families in the country. They knew that in their community there were many families like the Andrewses who lived inadequately and yet who were not on relief. The question these citizens faced was how to get the Andrews family started toward a better way of living. The answer, they knew, was not simple. They knew that there was not one way, but many. There were, however, a few guiding principles which these individuals and groups used. 1. The decided that the basic problem was to get people interested in using and learning how to use the resources now available in the community. 2. The decided to work on only one problem at a time. 3. They knew the value of correcting or reaffirming their theories of what was good to do my acting on them themselves, so that their teaching come to have authority because it was based on experience. 4. They secured some of the latest literature, among which were: Consumer Knowledge Builds Defense (a selected bibliography) Consumer Division Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply Washington, D. C. (Free) 1/ Consumer's Guide Consumer Division Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply Washington, D. C. (Free) 5010 -6- Directory of Governmental Consumer Services and Agencies Consumer Division Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply Washington, D. C. (Free) Handbook for Consumer Representatives Consumer Division Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply Consumer Prices, a bi-weekly publication Consumer Division Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply Washington, D. C. (Free) When Your Buy Meat Consumers' Counsel Division U. S. Department of Agriculture Washington, D. C. (Free) Government Grading of Canned Fruits and Vegetables, Questions and Answers Bureau of Agriculture Economics U. S. Department of Agriculture Washington, D. C. (Free) 5. Then each started to do things that grew out of their own work and experience, working with the group nearest at hand and easiest for them as individuals to reach. Here are some of the things they did: A Teacher Thought of Gardens This teacher called a meeting of the parents of the children in her room. She told them of how she had come to think of Defense as a matter of each family being well and strong, and of her own interest in having a home garden. She called the meeting because she felt that they, too, might be interested and as a group they might profit by the experience of one another. She gave the parents copies of the pamphlet, The City Home Garden, which she had secured from the Office of Information, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. (Free). Here preparation of the soil, seeds, planting, and general care of the garden were discussed. The group read the pamphlet together, talked a great 5010 - 7 - deal, went home and did some work, came back and compared notes, returned to their work again, and out of all this there came to be some new home gardens in the city. And some of the folks who weren't at the meeting found their neighbors starting to grow things, caught the idea and started themselves. A Church Leader Arranged A Listening Party A leader of the young people's meeting at the church had recently been married. He and his wife had found the Radio Market News Broadcast helpful; however, when they talked about the broadcast to their friends they discovered that many people did not know of the existence of such a service. So they organized a "listening party" to which they invited the leading young people in the church and their mothers. Robert happened to be a member of this group. His mother didn't think much of going away from home to listen to a radio, but to please Robert she went. The enthusiasm and interest of the others caught Mrs. Andrews and she too became a regular listener to the broadcast and began to buy according to what was reported to be plentiful in the market that week. Listening to the broadcast started Mrs. Andrews thinking about the ways in which she could save. When she met her neighbor, Mrs. Jones, she thought, "Why couldn't we buy a sack of onions together? They're cheaper that way and a sack is enough for both of us." They did. A Women's Club Secured the Services of a Public Official The Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, which had written a letter to the Mayor about the need to include a consumer representative on the local defense council, read with some satisfaction of the appointment of Mrs. Cartwright. They did not know Mrs. Cartwright, but they decided to present to her the result of a study they had made which showed that there were six stores in Negro neighborhoods where the scales needed checking. Mrs. Cartwright, 5010 - 8 - equipped with names and addresses, rechecked the list and found that some of the stores were very poor and the scales old. She called on the city's Weights and Measures Inspector. She found he had never inspected the scales in the Negro section of town. He did not have enough help to cover all the community. But he promised Mrs. Cartwright that he would look into the six stores whose names she gave him. A week later she called the inspector. His report was not yet complete. Mrs. Cartwright suggested her calling to see him the following week. When she did, she took a copy of Check Your Weights and Measures, which she had secured from the Consumer Division of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, and explained how the idea of making American strong by making Americans stronger had to be worked at in a thousand concrete ways. Some were big and important new ways--others were small and part and parcel of our regular lives. She told the inspector about the group from the Federation of Women's Clubs that had come to see her. When she left, the inspector saw himself in a new light--a protector. So the inspection of scales in Negro neighborhoods began in earnest. The inspector was not harsh with the storekeepers, but he was firm, and people began to notice that a pound of salt pork looked like a pound of salt pork. The Negro Businessmen's League Sponsored a School Lunch Program At the National Convention of the Negro Businessmen's League, a report of the work of the Surplus Marketing Administration was included in the annual message of the Housewives' League. Mr. Brown who was a member of the Businessmen's League lived in the same community as the Andrews family. He was particularly attracted by what was said of the School Lunch Program. As a boy he had been very poor and had often been very hungry. So he was determined to see that this program was available to every child in his city. He called the Urban 5010 - 9 - League Secretary, who suggested a meeting of the school principals and the presidents of the Parent Teachers Association. Mr. Brown called the meeting. The facts were gathered and the program was under way. The school Robert and Nancy attended was the last to get the program because it was so hard to get the required equipment. 1/ But the Businessmen's League itself eventually gave the money, for the parents, though interested, had few extra pennies. A Y.W.C.A Club Organized a Canning Project The Busy Bees, a Y.W.C.A. industrial club (with a number of married members), decided to try their hand at home canning. Each girl canvassed her block to see if there were other people who wanted to join the project. Fifty people were registered. The Committee of Management, interested in the fact that the young women wished to help other people as well as themselves, came to their aid. One member offered her pressure cooker; another, a trained home economist, volunteered to supervise the project. The House Committee offered to collect empty jars from their friends and donate additional jars and all the rubbers out of their emergency fund. The project proved to be popular. It was written up in the local paper. The President of the Housewives' League read of the project and organized similar projects in three additional sections of the city using neighborhood churches as centers for the work. So a number of people started the winter with canned tomatoes and applesauce on their shelves. 1/ Operation of School Land Projects, Work Projects Administration, Federal Works Agency, Washington, D. C. 5010 - 10 - A High School Teacher Planned an Assembly Program The home economics teacher in the high school gave a talk at assembly on "Balanced Meals." The response was good, so, encouraged, she proposed for a future program the idea of dramatic skits on the role of vitamins in making America Strong. These skits were popular. Eventually parents found themselves curious about vitamins A, B, C, D, and G. The Women's Editor of the Local Negro Newspaper Wrote About Enriched Bread It was Mrs. Andrews' habit to read the Negro newspaper in its entirety, so, of course, she read the item on enriched bread. At last she thought here might be a way to be sure of some of the vitamins the children needed. She was telling Robert about it when he said, "What we need, mamma, is to know more about these things." Mrs. Andrews repeated the remark to Mr. Andrews. She felt embarrassed for scorn had crept into Rober's voice. She'd really like to talk to the editor of the Women's Paper, but she was afraid. Mr. Andrews laughed. He said, "The boy's right. I'll stop by, or perhaps I'll ask the secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. He knows lots of things and besides I see him every now and then." The N.A.A.C.P. Introduced the Andrews Family to the Services of the Federal Government The N.A.A.C.P. secretary suggested that Mr. Andrews write a penny postal card to the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture, saying that he and his wife wanted to learn how to secure the right vitamins for their children Robert, 11, and Nancy, 8. The Department sent some literature and a letter which said that in the community where the Andrews family lived there was a Mrs. Bundy- a former school teacher--who was a trained Home Economist and who had written to say she would like to be of service in defense. They felt that Mrs. Bundy might 5010 - 11 - work with the Andrews family on a plan for including proper vitamins in their weekly food list. But the Andrews family were shy. Mrs. Bundy lived in a big home. So they read the literature and did the best they could by themselves. The Urban League Produced an Exhibit Directing People's Attention to Labels A few months before, the Urban League secretary had started a food buying club among his friends. The members of this group had a real experience in saving money. They learned about the way the country's food supply is produced, organized and distributed, and decided it would be a good thing to tell other people some of the things they were learning. So they produced an exhibit which called people's attention to the pertinent subject of labels. They placed the exhibit in the window of the Urban League Office. Local stores felt a repercussion; people wanted to read before they bought. So things had to be placed on the shelves where people could easily read the labels before buying. Several additional stores began to carry graded foods. The Citizens' Committee Opened a Diet Clinic Attached to the local hospital was a citizens' committee. Stirred by reports on rejected draftees they decided to open a diet clinic. Copies of Eat the Right Food 1/, a simple nutrition leaflet, were secured for free distribution and hundreds of mothers were given opportunity to talk over their food problems with Mrs. Bundy, a volunteer who wanted to help in the defense program. 1/ Office of Coordinator of Health, Welfare and Related Defense Activities, Social Security Building, Washington, D. C. 5010 -12- Mrs. Bundy helped the people who came to the clinic to plan balanced meals and to be less timid about trying new foods and new ways of cooking. She taught them also about quantity buying which was possible even if you had very little money and very little storage space. Each of these activities was small. Each grew out of the immediate job or direct experience of the individual or group who started it. But altogether they meant real help to the Andrews family and many families like them in getting started toward a better way of living. They meant a fuller use of the resources of the community and a strengthening of the community and its home as units in total defense. Note: This booklet is the first of a series. Will you please help make the other booklets as useful as possible by sending us your frank comments and suggestions? NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN, INC. Organized 1896. Incorporated 1904. Affiliated with the National Council of Women U.S.A. Inc., 1906. Maintains Frederick Dou glass Memorial Home & Property 1916. Established National Scholarship fund & National Headquarters. Office of the President My dear Comrades : With this my first message to you for our New Year, I would send to each of you those gifts which are beyond price, which outlast time and which bridge all space, "Love which thinketh no evil and Seeketh not its Own". This year is a different year for us, all because "Someone is Missing", and yet we must preserve the heritage and the accomplishments of those who labored before us and with us through the past years. Accept my heartfelt thanks and appreciation to those of you who remembered me with cards, tokens, a thought or a prayer during our holiday season. May each and all of you be immeasurably blessed. Our hearts have been made sorrowful again because of the shocking notices announcing the passing of our loyal and faithful workers, Mrs. Catherine Williams, St. Louis Mo. ; Mrs. Rosetta Gipson, Kansas City, Mo. and Mrs. McCroery, North Carolina, all of which seems heavy to bear, but may we close rank and commemorate their Precious Memories by doing a greater task and reaching higher goals. Our last message stated that we would attempt to keep you informed about "Happenings You Should Know" : I. Headquarters has been repossessed and is now under our control for operation. This you ordered. Vice Pres. Christine S. Smith has adjusted her arrangements (as required by the Administrative Board) and is now in Washington, D. C. She will serve as Emergency Co-ordinator until a meeting can be held and plans made for the furtherance of our work. Our building must be renovated, redecorated and a new heating system provided. Both Chr. Bethune and Co-ordinator Smith have conferred with contractors and repair agencies. and all state the present heating system is unusable; so another must be provided. Co-ordinator Smith will supervise these repairs, edit our National Notes, assemble and arrange our program material, and use her influence to attract local women groups to use our building for their program and recreation activities. It will be ours to finance our projects and her services, her service will be given for Seventy-Five Dollars ($75.00) per month. II. Each Chairman is requested to send her program material immediately to the office of the president, send two copies please and the state presidents are also urgently requested to send the duplicate copies of their state officers and Chairman of departments to our office. III. Send any program suggestions. Let your department outline be short and concise, telling of your goals and your suggestive methods of obtaining them. IV. Appointments of our last biennial chairman and board members remain the same, excepting where notices have been given of the retirement of an officer or vacancies have occured by death, such vacancies will be filled shortly. V. You are aware of the disbursements of our funds at the Wilberforce meeting, where we applied our receipts to what appeared to be unpaid accounts of the National Association. This left our account confined almost altogether to the sum raised in our special Campaign Fund effort. Now that we have our Headquarters Building to rehabilitate, a new heating system to provide, it is imperative that our treasury be strengthened. We MUST protect and beautify our property, hence each worker who has not sent in her quota of the Financial Campaign is requested to begin now to send in regular payments until same is paid in full. Send same to Secretary Nannie Mae Williams, 3646 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. She will send same to Tres. Ella P. Steward and you will receive receipts for the amounts sent. Our Building will fill a great need in Washington, and it can function as planned from the beginning. Give it your support, and you will be pleased with its service and its dignity. VI. An honorarium was requested to be paid (when the officers receiving same completed their official work of the biennial 1941-1943) , same is not paid in full yet, for the following reasons : (a) The records and the work of this full period have not been reported. (b) Our finance is insufficient to meet our emergency needs, and pay these gifts at this time, "We Cannot Make Brick Without Straw". Hence again we request your immediate assistance, send in your quotas, send state dues, buy the minutes, buy our unsold supplies, and let us prepare our Headquarters to function as the "Great Watch Tower" that it is destined to be. Information will be sent to you regarding our other projects, when there is more development. Thanks to those of you who have given your full Co-operation to "The Financial Efforts", also gratitude is expressed for the invitations received asking that I attend your state and regional meetings. I hope to be present and if I can be of service to others call on me. Depending on each of you to do a full share, I am Yours for LIFTING AS WE CLIMB [*A.B. De Ment.*] A. B. DeMent. [*P.S. How are you my dear? Thanks for all your helpfulness. Have expected a reply to my request, about your membership on "The Advisory Board. Love as always, A. B. De Ment.*] Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.