Early Community Work of Black Club Women
@article{Lerner1974EarlyCW,
title={Early Community Work of Black Club Women},
author={G. Lerner},
journal={The Journal of Negro History},
year={1974},
volume={59},
pages={158 - 167}
}by GERDA LERNER Blaick women organized, throughout the nineteenth century, at first on a local, lateron a state and national level, to undertake educational, philanthropic and welfare activities. Urbanization, the urgent needs of the poor in a period of rapid industrialization and the presence of a sizeable group of educated women with leisure led to the emergence of a national club movement of white women after the Civil War. Similar conditions did not begin to operate in the black communities… CONTINUE READING
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