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151:, and wrote that black women had "no sense of virtue" and were "altogether without character". Outraged, Belgarnie sent the letter to Ruffin who distributed the letter to various women's clubs in her call to organize. Soon after, Ruffin organized a national conference in Boston, and asked clubs to send delegates. The first day was to be devoted to the business of organizing, and the second and third to "vital questions concerning our moral, mental, physical and financial growth and well-being." In the call, Ruffin explained the choice of venue: 218:, gave an influential speech titled "Individual Work for Moral Elevation". African-American women, she said, were divided into two classes: those who "had the opportunity to improve and develop mentally, physically, morally, spiritually and financially" and those who had been deprived of that opportunity by slavery. She urged members of the former class to do all they could to uplift and inspire the latter, reasoning that individual success was not enough; that only by "lifting as we climb" was it possible for the race to make progress. 285:(1) the concentration of the dormant energies of the women of the Afro-American race into one broad band of sisterhood: for the purpose of establishing needed reforms, and the practical encouragement of all efforts being put forth by various agencies, religious, educational, ethical and otherwise, for the upbuilding, ennobling and advancement of the race; (2) to awaken the women of the race to the great need of systematic effort in home-making and the divinely imposed duties of motherhood. 180: 166: 209:
Our woman's movement is woman's movement in that it is led and directed by women for the good of women and men, for the benefit of all humanity, which is more than any one branch or section of it. We want, we ask the active interest of our men, and, too, we are not drawing the color line; we are
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On July 29, 1895, representatives of 42 black women's clubs from 14 states—including the Colored Women's League of Washington, the Women's Loyal Union of New York, and the Ida B. Wells Club of Chicago—gathered in Berkeley Hall for the First National Conference of the Colored Women of
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of Boston gave the opening benediction. Although it was not unheard of for Christian women to preach in those days, it was unusual for a woman to be given the title of chaplain. Alice T. Miller of Boston read a poem, and singers Moses Hamilton Hodges and Arianna Sparrow gave solo performances.
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polled readers to see if there was a need for a national organization of black clubwomen, the response was overwhelmingly positive. In 1895, an obscure Missouri journalist named John Jacks sent a letter to the secretary of the British
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Boston has been selected as a meeting place because it has seemed to be the general opinion that here, and here only, can be found the atmosphere which would best interpret and represent us, our position, our needs, and our
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was designated as the organization's news outlet. The NFAAW held another conference in 1896, when it merged with other groups to form the
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gave a speech titled "Social Purity" in which she asserted that being white was not a "criterion for being American". Civil rights leader
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The National Federation of Afro-American Women (NFAAW) was organized during the 1895 conference, and its mission defined as:
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America, with Josephine Ruffin presiding. They convened at the hall for three days, with an extra session on August 1 at the
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Poem read by Miss Alice T. Miller at the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America, Boston, 1895
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women, American women, as intensely interested in all that pertains to us as such as all other American women.
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also spoke. Other club women gave speeches on justice, temperance, and the need for industrial training.
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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830–1900
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spoke about the need to organize. In "The Value of Race Literature", author and former slave
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Several notable speakers addressed the group. Margaret Murray Washington, the wife of
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Delegates from the conference were elected officers for the organization, and were
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stressed the importance of collecting literature by and about African Americans.
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Ella L. Smith, the first African-American woman to receive an M.A. degree from
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Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois
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Chicago and Northern District Association of Colored Women's Clubs
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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
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The First National Conference of the Colored Women of America
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Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching
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the following year, was organized during the conference.
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reform. Its slogan was "Help to make the world better".
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Index

National Federation of Afro-American Women
Boston
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
civil rights
suffragist
Margaret Murray Washington
Booker T. Washington
Victoria Earle Matthews
Ida B. Wells
Anna J. Cooper
T. Thomas Fortune
Henry B. Blackwell
William Lloyd Garrison
National Association of Colored Women
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Woman's Era Club
Florida Ruffin Ridley
Maria Louise Baldwin
Boston
women's suffrage
anti-lynching
The Woman's Era
Anti-Slavery Society
Ida B. Wells

Historical Records of Conventions of 1895–96 of the Colored Women of America

Historical Records of Conventions of 1895–96 of the Colored Women of America
Charles Street Church
Booker T. Washington

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