Research Catalog

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Description

1. 4 lin. ft.

Summary

1. The Wilhelmina F. Adams Papers (Additions) consist principally of her files chronicling her work as a civic leader primarily with New York Democratic club activities, the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs (NANBPWC) and the National Council of Negro Women.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

1. New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 1898-1951
2. Aeolian Ladies of Charity
3. Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Community Planning Board
4. National Council of Negro Women
5. United Democratic Club (New York (N.Y.)
6. New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions
7. African American women > New York (State) > New York > Political activity
8. Adams, Wilhelmina F (Wilhelmina Ferris), -1987
9. Order of the Eastern Star
10. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Societies, etc
11. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Economic conditions
12. Scrapbooks
13. Harlem Hospital Center > Chaplaincy Committee
14. Tioga Democratic Club (New York, N.Y.)
15. Friends of Liberian Youth
16. African American women > New York (State) > New York > Societies and clubs
17. Women's City Club of New York
18. Hospitals > New York (State) > New York
19. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Charities
20. Democratic Party (N.Y.)
21. National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs
22. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
23. United Negro College Fund
24. Clubs > New York (State) > New York
25. Women > Political activity > New York (State) > New York
26. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Genre/Form

1. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 485

Note

1. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Access (note)

1. restricted.

Source (note)

1. Adams, Wilhelmina F.

Biography (note)

1. Wilhelmina F. Adams was a political and civil rights activist for African Americans and women in New York City.

Processing action (note)

1. Accessioned
2. Cataloged

Author

1. Adams, Wilhelmina F. (Wilhelmina Ferris), -1987.

Title

1. Wilhelmina F. Adams papers : additions, [ca. 1930]-1981.

Access

1. Membership application forms of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs restricted.

Biography

1. Wilhelmina F. Adams was a political and civil rights activist for African Americans and women in New York City. She was the first African American woman to be elected a delegate to the Democratic National Convention (1944) and was also the first African American woman to be elected co-leader of the current 17th Assembly District. Adams was active in numerous organizations, including being a life member and president of the National Council of Negro Women from 1952-1954, the National Association of Business and Professional Women and its New York Chapter, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the New York Urban League. She was the founder and president of the Aeolian Ladies of Charity, an organization devoted to assisting the aged at Christmas and other seasons of the year, president of the Utopia Neighborhood Club which was concerned with small children, and was active in the Friends of the Northside Center which was a child guidance center aimed at preventing delinquency and maladjustment. Adams' love of music and the arts was also manifested in her membership in arts organizations. Her year of birth is uncertain; she was born between 1900 and 1910.

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Research call number

1. Sc MG 485