National Notes, 1927-28 NATIONAL NOTES Official Organ of the National Association of Colored Women MOTTO: "Lifting As We Climb." SPECIAL MEMORIAL NUMBER DEDICATED TO THE DEPARTED MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN, INCORPORATED "Yet not to thine eternal resting place shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down with patriarchs of the infant world; with kings, the powerful of the earth; the wise, the good, fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, all in one mighty sepulcher." Vol. 28 February, 1927. No. 6 NATIONAL NOTES Official Organ of the National Association of Colored Women MOTTO: "Lifting As We Climb." NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 12TH & O STS., WASHINGTON D.C. OUR SEVEN-PLANK PLATFORM EDUCATION CITIZENSHIP INDUSTRY RACIAL SOLIDARITY THRIFT INTER-RACIAL RELATIONS SOCIAL SERVICE Vol. 29 April, 1927 No. 8 NATIONAL NOTES: Official Organ of the National Association of Colored Women Motto: "Lifting as we Climb" National Headquarters, 12th & O Sts, Washington, D.C. OUR SEVEN PLANK PLATFORM Education Citizenship Industry Racial Solidarity Thrift Inter-racial relations Social Service Vol. 29, April 1927, No. 8 VOl. 30 November 1927 No. 3 (the information on the second page, besides the date, volume, and number, are exactly the same) Washington, D.C. 1615 S ST. N.W. Mrs. M. C.Terrell, Our Motto: "Lifting As We Climb" NATIONAL NOTES OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN THE LATE MRS. MARGARET MURRAY WASHINGTON Founder of National Notes Volume Thirty APRIL---1928 Number Eight OUR SEVEN-PLANK PLATFORM EDUCATION INDUSTRY THRIFT CITIZENSHIP SOCIAL SERVICE INTER-RACIAL RELATIONS RACIAL SOLIDARITY Washington, D.C. 1615 S. St., Mrs. Mary Church Terrell COMPLIMENTARY Our Motto: "Lifting As We Climb" NATIONAL NOTES OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN National Headquarters, 12th & Q Sts., Washington, D.C. Volume Thirty MAY ---1928 Number Nine OUR SEVEN-PLANK PLATFORM EDUCATION INDUSTRY THRIFT CITIZENSHIP SOCIAL SERVICE INTER-RACIAL RELATIONS RACIAL SOLIDARITY NATIONAL NOTES OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN SIXTEENTH BIENNIAL CONVENTION NUMBER National Headquarters 12th & O. Sts. Washington, D.C. Our Seven-Plank Platform EDUCATION INDUSTRY THRIFT CITIZENSHIP SOCIAL SERVICE INTER-RACIAL RELATIONS RACIAL SOLIDARITY Volume Thirty July, 1928 Number Eleven Our Motto: "Lifting As We Climb" D.C. Washingto See Page 18 [handwritten] 1615 S. N. W. Mrs. M.G. e NATIONAL NOTES OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN National Association of Colored Women ~~~~ National Headquarters 1114 O St., Washington D. C. DOUGLASS HOME SCHOLARSHIP FUND N.A.C.W OUR MOTTO: "LIFTING AS WE CLIMB." NEXT MEETING -- HOT SPRINGS, ARK. -- 1930 HEADQUARTERS SEPTEMBER and OCTOBER, 1928 No. 1-2 NATIONAL NOTES September and October, 1928 FROM THE FIELD WHAT IS MISSOURI DOING To the Federated Clubs of Missouri. Greetings: Congratulations to you on the work accom- plished during the past biennial term. Your reports show that both in the matter of paym- ent of our National dues and the National Headquarters Drive you have done extra fine. In the National Association reports at Wash- ington, D.C., Missouri stood second out of the 44 states represented. $653.00 paid in for National dues during the past two years and $654.00 paid in for the National Headquarters. Total, $1,307.00. Our N.A.C.W. wishes to complete our National Headquarters Drive by New Year's Day. $15,000 remains to be paid on National Headquarters. Each state has been apportioned according to the number of financial members. The state sending in its quota to the National Headquart- ers first will be awarded a silver loving cup. Won't you please help your state lead? Missouri's slogan is, "Win First." Therefore Miss Arsania M. Williams, Mis- souri State Headquarteres Chairman, offers a cash award of $25.00 to be paid Thanksgiving Day to the Club in Missouri raising the largest amount over $20.00 and being first to make its returns. Time limit for the contest Thursday preceding Thanksgiving Day, which is Novem- ber 22, 1928. Honorable mention will be given each club that raises its quota. The following suggestions have been made with the hope that all clubs will find them help- ful and useful. You will find enclosed a book of bricks which will bring you $10.00 (other books will be sent on request). You may sup- plement this by various entertainments, such as a Baby Show, Apron Social, Tag Day, Hope Chest Contest, Back Door Doughnut Sale, and a Parcel Post Party. Send all money by bank draft or post office money order to Mrs. Mildred W. Boon, 217 1/2 North Main St., Maryville, Mo. Yours for "Lifting As We Climb," Miss Dulcenia Barker Missouri State President. Miss Arsania M. Williams, Missouri Chairman of Headquarters Dept. Mrs. Mildred W. Boone, Financial Secretary of Missouri State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. [line] A PENNSYLVANIA JUNIOR REPORT The Fifth Annual Convention of the Penn- sylvania State Junior Federation of Negro Women's Clubs was held in the Providence Baptist Church, Chester, Pa., from July 24 to 27. [new column] The Junior Federation has 40 Junior clubs which are composed of over 700 girls, who are all very loyal and supporting to their beloved Seniors. We are doing a great work along the lines of charity and welfare and supporters of scholarship funds. Our state has four departments, namely, music, art, educational and scholarship. Our music department, which gives to the conven- tion body so much pep and life, is headed by Miss Edith Sluby, of Canonsburg. The art work that the clubs send to the convention is an outstanding feature itself and has been praised by many prominent people interested in art work. The Junior Federation for the first time won the beautiful loving cup for raising the largest amount for the scholarship funds, and the club that raised the largest amount was the Rose- bud Art and Literary Club, of Washington, Pa. This is an honor we are more than proud of. There were three Junior clubs that came to the convention 100 per cent in membership, which shows that we are progressing. All year we have been working with great success and there was twice as many delegates this year as there was last year. We are trying to organize a Junior club for every Senior Club. So this has been a year of organization. We have aimed to increase our numbers and to let the girls of Pennsylvania know the many advantages they now have and what help the Junior Federation can give them that they might need. Miss Hazel Henderson, our state president, emphasized the value of self-help in education and the younger girls must realize that upon their education their entire future depends, regardless of what they wish to accomplish, and that the Junior Fed- eration was the organization they needed to join, for it was lifting as it climbed. Co-Workers: Hazel Henderson............State President Recording Secretary.......Eveyln Baynes Reporter...........................La Rue Walker [line] Washington, D.C., July 17, 1928. DEAR MADAM: The Peace Circle, affiliated with the Federa- tion of Women' Clubs of Washington, D.C., and vicinity, presided over by Mrs. Amanda Hillyer, is anxious that some recognition and reverence be given, as a just tribute, to the memory of the woman whose vision and ideals thirty-four years ago anticipated as great na- tional organization such as ours. We refer to Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, whose life was devoted to the organizing of women's clubs for study and solution of the in- [new column] creasing complexity of their civic, industrial and cultural problems. Because it is not uncommon in the history of other organizations to pause to pay homage to its founders, and to profess fealty to the prin- ciples by which they were guided, the Peace Circle feels that the conclave in Washington is a propitious time for the presentation of the memorial, prepared by the founder's daughter, Mrs. Florida Ruffin Ridley. We have no thought of being presumptuous in calling attention of the body to the original ideas and ideals; our purpose is solely to urge, by way of a memorial, a re-dedication to the ideals and a revival of the spirit to attack prob- lems of gravity and moment to our race. We know and feel that you are interested in paying tribute to the great lives who are ac- complished, and for this reason, we urge your interest and sympathy and courage in present- ing this memorial, a copy of which we are en- closing, to the national body. Fraternally yours, Dorothy C. Boulding, Secretary-Treasurer. 821 Third Street, S.E. [line] MEMORIAL TO JOSEPHINE ST. PIERRE RUFFIN Thirty-four years ago the president of the Woman's Era Club, of Boston, Mass., Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, called a special committee meeting to consider the wisdom and possibility of launching a national organization of colored women. The Woman's Era Club, the first group of colored women to organizat for civic, industrial, and cultural advancement, was founded in 1892 and soon obtained a mem- bership of one hundred forward-looking women. Realizing that the handicaps of ignorance, poverty, color, discrimination and political in- equality against which all Negroes were strug- gling, it became impressed upon the president that a long step towards better conditions might be made through national conference and or- ganization. It was a big thought and led to a treatmen- dous undertaking. For endeavor in the days before the telephone, before the automobile, before even the typewriter, to reach out to all parts of this great country and get in touch with women, many of whom had never been beyond their native towns, or knew anything of organization for altruistic purpose-none of whom had the political or economic standing of the women of today! It was an idea of superwomen and the re- sponse was that of superwomen; for one year after launching the movement, colored women Mrs M C Terrell 1615 S St. N.W. Washington D.C. NATIONAL NOTES OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL ASSSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN National Association of Colored Women~~~~ National Headquarters 1114 O St., N. W., Washington, D.C. DOUGLASS HOME SCHOLARSHIP FUND N.A.C.W OUR MOTTO: "LIFTING AS WE CLIMB" NEXT MEETING~~HOT SPRINGS, ARK.--1930 HEADQUARTERS Vol. XXXI DECEMBER, 1928 No. 3 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.