"Wednesdays in Mississippi" Papers, 2002.

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"Wednesdays in Mississippi" Papers, 2002.

Transcripts, audio tapes and a diskette of oral interviews with Sylvia Radov, Beatrice Mayer, Jean Davis, Marguerite Cassell, Susie Stedman and Dorothy Height, members of the organization. The interviews were conducted by Amy Murrell and Holly Cowan Shulman.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7755449

University of Virginia. 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...

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Davis, Jeanne M., 1944-

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Stedman, Susie.

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Shulman, Holly Cowan

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Cassell, Marguerite.

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Murrell, Amy R.

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Wednesdays in Mississippi

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