PAST STATE PRESIDENTS
CLUBS AND STANDING COMMITTEES
MARY CHURCH TERRELL
The National Association of Colored Women
“Lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long … Seeking no favors because of our color nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice and ask for an equal chance.” — 1902
"What Role is the Educated Negro Woman
to Play in the Uplifting of Her Race?".
Sep 23, 1863 Memphis, TN
Jul 24, 1954 Highland Beach, MD
Jun 11, 1883 Henderson, NC
Jan 11, 1961 Greensboro, NC
CHARLOTTE HAWKINS BROWN
North Carolina Federation of Negro Womens Clubs
"I have chosen to speak to you this morning on a subject which is very near to my soul, "The Negro and the Social Graces." By social graces I do not mean an attitude of cheap servility, assumed for the purpose of currying favor. I mean simply doing the courteous thing and making a pleasing appearance—the practice of everyday good manners so generally lacking nowadays in the conduct of the average young person, regardless of race.." March 10, 1940
CBS radio broadcast of
Wings Over Jordan