Research Catalog

Title

National Association of University Women records, 1925-1985 (bulk 1969-1985).

Author

National Association of University Women (U.S.)

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.2 lin. ft.

Subjects

• African American women > Societies and clubs
• Women college graduates
• National Association of University Women (U.S.)
• African Americans > Societies, etc
• African American college graduates
• Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations > United States
• African Americans > Scholarships, fellowships, etc

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• Sumpter, Christine

Biography (note)

• The National Association of University Women, formed in 1974 (formerly: National Association of College Women (U.S.), founded in 1924), is comprised of African American college and university women graduates and has the following as its goals: to promote constructive work in education, civic activities, and human relations; to study educational conditions with emphasis on problems affecting women; to encourage high educational standards and stimulate intellectual attainment among women generally. The NAUW maintains a placement service, awards annual national fellowships; each local group gives one or more college scholarships annually.
• In 1910 the parent group of the NAUW, the College Alumnae Club, was organized by Mary Church Terrell, the first president, and twenty-four other other African American university graduates. The organization participated in activities to raise the standards of African American colleges and achieve women suffrage. In 1924 the branches formed the National Association of College Women, and currently there are approximately eighty-seven branches throughout the United States.

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SC MG 419

Author

National Association of University Women (U.S.)

Title

National Association of University Women records, 1925-1985 (bulk 1969-1985).

Summary

The National Association of University Women Records is comprised of a history of the organization, the charter and by-laws, minutes of meetings, officers' reports, and printed material consisting of programs of national conventions and the annual Founder's Day of the New York branch, directories, bulletins, newsletters, journals, and news clippings.

Biography

The National Association of University Women, formed in 1974 (formerly: National Association of College Women (U.S.), founded in 1924), is comprised of African American college and university women graduates and has the following as its goals: to promote constructive work in education, civic activities, and human relations; to study educational conditions with emphasis on problems affecting women; to encourage high educational standards and stimulate intellectual attainment among women generally. The NAUW maintains a placement service, awards annual national fellowships; each local group gives one or more college scholarships annually.

In 1910 the parent group of the NAUW, the College Alumnae Club, was organized by Mary Church Terrell, the first president, and twenty-four other other African American university graduates. The organization participated in activities to raise the standards of African American colleges and achieve women suffrage. In 1924 the branches formed the National Association of College Women, and currently there are approximately eighty-seven branches throughout the United States.

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SC MG 419