President Ronald Reagan's and Dorothy Height's remarks at a Reception for the National Council of Negro Women in the East Room

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President Ronald Reagan's and Dorothy Height's remarks at a Reception for the National Council of Negro Women in the East Room

1983

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Ronald Reagan Library

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Ronald Reagan Library

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National Council of Negro Women

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The National Council of Negro Women (NANW) was founded December 5, 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune. It grew out of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Bethune was an educator and the daughter of former slaves. She branched off the ideas of the NACW and began the start of the NCNW to help African American women and their families. Women on the council fought more towards political and economic successes of black women to uplift them in society. NCNW fulfills this mission through researc...