On This Day In TCXPI History – We Must Never Forget! Mary Church Terrell, Co-Founder and First President of the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, DC. In response to a vicious attack on the character of African-American women by a Southern journalist, combined with the spread of disfranchisement, lynching, and segregation, and the desire to uplift the race, black women organized a club movement that led to the formation of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) in Washington, D.C. in 1896. The organizations founders included some of the most renowned African-American women educators, community leaders, and civil-rights activists in America, including: Harriet Tubman, Frances E.W. Harper, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Margaret Murray Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell, who became the organizations first president. Sources: pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_nacw.html about.usps/news/national-releases/2009/sr09_020.htm
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