National Association of Colored Women | "Lifting as We Climb," the Constitution of the National Association of Colored Women

National Association of Colored Women

Constitution and By-Laws of the National Association of Colored Women. [Np: nd, ca 1926]

Stapled booklet (155 x 113 mm). Faint offsetting on to p. 1. Original orange wrappers, rubber stamp with blue ink emending colors of the NACW; faint spotting and toning.  

"We, the Colored Women of the United States of America, feeling the need of united and systematic effort, and hoping to furnish evidence of moral, mental and material progress made by our people; do hereby unite in a National Association" (Preamble). 

The National Association of Colored Women (later the National Association of Colored Women's Club) was organized in 1896 at the First Annual Convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Women in Washington, D.C., by a merger of the National Federation of African-American Women, the Woman's Era Club of Boston, and the Colored Women's League of Washington, D.C. When it was incorporated in 1904, the NACW became known as the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Its constitution was ratified in 1926.