Fannie Barrier Williams
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Frances Barrier Williams was an American educator, civil rights and women's rights activist, and the first black woman to gain membership to the Chicago Woman's Club. She became well known for her eff
Fannie Barrier c. 1880
The World's Congress of Representative Women was a week-long convention for the voicing of women's concerns, held within the World's Congress Auxiliary Building in conjunction with the World's Columbi
Fannie Barrier Williams
…the first, "The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation," Barrier Williams addressed the World's Congress of Representative Women, and disputed the notion that slavery had rendered black American women incapable of the same moral and intellectual levels as other women. She called…
The Woman's Building
Bertha Palmer, president
Ellen Martin Henrotin, vice-president
May Wright Sewall, chair