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
The Woman's Building
Bertha Palmer, president
Ellen Martin Henrotin, vice-president
May Wright Sewall, chair
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
World's Congress of Representative Women
…Our Debt to Zurich - Helen L. Webster The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation – Fannie Barrier Williams The Organized Efforts of the Colored Women of the South to Improve their Condition - Sarah Jane Woodson Early…
Fannie Barrier c. 1880