The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is an "organization of organizations" (comprised of 300 campus and community-based sections and 32 national women’s organizations) that enlightens, inspires and connects more than 2,000,000 women and men. Its mission is to lead, advocate for, and empower women of African descent, their...
The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is an "organization of organizations" (comprised of 300 campus and community-based sections and 32 national women’s organizations) that enlightens, inspires and connects more than 2,000,000 women and men. Its mission is to lead, advocate for, and empower women of African descent, their families and communities. NCNW was founded in 1935 by Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, an influential educator and activist, and for more than fifty years, the iconic Dr. Dorothy Height was president of NCNW. In 1980 NCNW was one of the sponsors of demonstration in Commemoration of June 16, 1976 Uprising in Soweto, South Africa in New York City. In 1988 the National Council of Negro Women/International Division is working in partnership with the General Union of Cooperatives to build a management training center in order to increase the economic efficiency and productivity of the member cooperatives in Mozambique. On March 8, 1994 Jennifer Davis, Executive Director of The Africa Fund and Dr. Dorothy I. Height, President of the National Council of Negro Women co-hosted a press conference on International Women's Day to celebrate an important advance in the global struggle for gender equality -- the release of the South African Women's Charter. (Source: NCNW website and
Wikipedia, both accessed August 4, 2020; and documents on this website.)
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