Who We Are
The National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs is women of color dedicated to uplifting women, children, families, the home and the community through service, community education, scholarship assistance and the promotion of racial harmony among all people so that those we serve are better able to take their proper and rightful place in society as citizens, community leaders, parents, and family members.
Additional Information about NACWC
Our History
We are women of color, African American women, black women.
Long before the founding of the organization, our forbearers, had organized ourselves into self-improvement and charitable organizations. These organizations were led by women named Harriet Tubman and Helen Appo Cook (both NACW founders), Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and a plethora of unnamed others whose lives were devoted to the struggle to free people of color from the bondage of slavery, illiteracy, and prejudice in an unforgiving world that treated them as less than human. It was also the time of Ida B. Wells Barnett and her Red Record, voluminous documentation of the lynching of black Americans.
Objectives
To work for the economic, moral, religious and social welfare of women and youth
To protect the rights of women and youth
To raise the standard and quality of life in home and family
To secure and use our influence for the enforcement of civil and political rights for African Americans and all citizens
To promote the education of women and youth through the work of the departments.
To obtain for African American women the opportunity of reaching the highest levels in all fields of human endeavor.
To promote effective interaction with the male auxiliary.
To promote inter-racial understanding so that justice and good will may prevail among all people.
Our Programs
NACWC Youth Clubs
NACWC Young Adult Department
NACWC Grandparents Academy
NAWCW Standard Federated Club Initiates
Scholarships