Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-08-16
National Association Of Colored Wom

the National Association Of Colored
Women, held at Hampton Institute,
July % to 27, at the call of Miss
Elizabeth G. Carter, New Bedford,
Mass, the national president for four
years, brought together for mutual
help and inspiration some three hun
dred self-sacrificing, distinguished,
colored women who have been &C.
lively engaged throughout the whole
country in club work for the moral,
mental, and material progress ofthe
Negro race.
1t is estimated that there are about
eight hundred local clubs managed by
colored women. A few statistics from
tow hunderd clubs, making reports
to the N. A. G. w., will show the vast
colored women.
strength of the club movement among
Total membership, 10, 1908
$82,424.66
Cost Of property owned by clubs,
$61,S4515
Prestnt valuation of property, $113,
332.25
affiliated with the National Council
Washington, D. c., in 1896. 1t was
The Association was organized in
1896. 1t was affiliated with the Nat
ional Council of Women of the United
States in 1900 and was incorporated
in 1904. National conventions have
been held in Nashville, Buffalo, De-
troit, Louisville, Chicago, st. Louis,
and Brooklyn. a r. ~-.
v+ OFFICERS. .s@
The following national officers were
elected: Mrs. Margaret Murray
Washington. Tuskogee. Ala, presi.
dent; Mrs. lone e. Gibbs, Minneapolis
Mimi, vice president at large; Mrs.
Mary Talbert, Buffalo, N. Y, chairman
of executive board; Miss Ida r. Cum.
mings, Baltimore, Md, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Mamie E. Steward,
Louisville, KY, Mrs. jamie Porter
Barrett, Hampton, Va, Miss Robert
and third recording secretaries, re-
spectlvely; Mrs. Ida Joyce Jackson,
Columbus, o., treasurer; Mrs. Emma
Linsay Davis, Chicago, ILL.,, national
organizer; Miss Halle @. Brown, Will
berforce University, Wilberface, O.,
parliamentarian; Mrs. Mary V. Par
ish, Louisville, KY, statistician.
Mrs. Booker T. Washington an
nounced the names of the following
heads of national departments; Mrs.
Sylvania Williams, New Orleans, La,
mothers clubs; Mrs. G. T. Dorrah,
Ocala, Fla, children; Miss Mamie H.
Burroughs, Washington, D. c., young
womens work; DR.. Mary Fitzbutler
Waring, Chicago, ILL.,, health and hy-
giene; Mrs. Bishop Handy, Baltimore,
Md, humane; Mrs. Wilkerson, Or
angeburg, S. c., domestic science;
Mrs. S. Joe Brown, Des Moines, Iowa,
social science; Mrs. Maggie l.. Walk
er, Richmond, Va, business; Miss
Mary S. Jackson, Providence, R. l.
suffrage; Miss Alice Wylie Seay,
Brooklyn, N. Y, associated charities
Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce, Washington,
D. c., civic and forestry; MS. Ella
Jackson, Lexington, KY, rescue work;
Mrs. J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn,
educational; Mrs. Jacobson, Oklahoma
City, Okla, kindergarten; Mrs. w. T
B. Williams, Hampton, Va, music;
Mrs. Adella Hunt Logan, Tuskogee
Ala, rural conditions; Mis-. c. w. Po
sey, Homestead, Pa, art; Mrs. Bishop
Clinton, Salisbury, N. c., literature;
Mrs. William Alphin, Waco, Tex, re
ligious work; Mrs. Agnes Lewis
Montgomery, Ala, agriculture; Mrs
M. C. B. Mason, Cincinnati, Ohio
temperance; Mrs. Sadie B. Hamilton
Pittsburg, Pa, juvenile courts.
Mrs. Booker T. Washington also
was chosen delegate to represent the
N. A. C. w. at the Emancipation Jubi
lee which will be held in Washington
September 26, 1912.
The next biennial convention will b.
held at Wilberforce University, Will
berforce, Ohio, in July 1914.
The Iowa delegation consisted O
Mrs. J. B. uRsh, President, Mrs. C. B
Lewis and Miss Jessie Walker, Homo
rary Presidents and Mrs. S. Jo'
Brown, organizer Of the Iowa Stat
Federation, also Mrs. Ruth Bright
President of the Davenport City Fed
GRAFTON who read splendid paper OF
''The Women Movement"
Mrs. Brown in addition to the ap
pointment above mentioned saved Al
member Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee and also brought home the gol'
medal that is awarded, by the Ma
tional Assn to the individual bringini
in the largest amount Of money to tn
Ways and Means Fund. She reported
owe rthirty dollars.