The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs is an American organization that was formed in July 1896 at the First Annual Convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Women in Washingto
National Association of Colored Women's Clubs headquarters in Washington, D.C., part of the Sixteenth Street Historic District.
Ida B. Wells
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the A
National Association of Colored Women's Clubs
…Margaret Murray Washington, convened the meeting. Founders of the NACWC included Harriet Tubman, Margaret Murray Washington, Frances E. W. Harper, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Victoria Earle Matthews, Josephine Silone Yates, and Mary Church Terrell. The organization defined its first year agenda through multiple issues…
Wells, c. 1893
The Bolling–Gatewood House. The Wells family lived in slave quarters located behind the house of Spires Boling while enslaved to him, now a museum focused on Wells
The People's Grocery near Memphis, Tennessee, was a successful African-American cooperative. The 1892 lynchings of its owners led Wells to begin her investigations of lynching.
Attorney Ferdinand Lee Barnett (c. 1900). Wells married Barnett in 1895.