Montana Federation Of Colored Women's Clubs Records> 1921-1978

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Montana Federation Of Colored Women's Clubs Records> 1921-1978

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The Montana Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (originally the Montana Federation of Negro Women's Clubs) was a coordinating organization for local clubs of African American women around Montana. Records include minute books (1936-1952), correspondence, and reports of the Dunbar Art and Study Club, Great Falls; and miscellany reports and correspondence of the Phyllis Wheatley Club, Billings; Pearl Club, Butte; and the Pleasant Hour Club, Helena. Materials of the state federation include Legislative Committee reports, correspondence, clippings, bills concerned with civil rights state legislation; Claudia Bivens Scholarship material; state convention programs (1921-1978); constitution and bylaws; notes; clippings; and miscellany. [OVERSIZE MATERIAL: Map Case]

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When the Montana Federation of Negro Women's Clubs first met in Butte on August 3, 1921, at least nine African American women's clubs were active in communities throughout the state. Representatives from seven of the local clubs attended the meeting called by Mary B. Chappell to organize the state federation as an affiliate of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, which organized in 1896. The representatives attending the Butte meeting elected Chappell as the state fede...