Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs

CTL-E-1250 · Venue · club · 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Statewide federation of Black women's clubs founded 1899; built and funded kindergartens, nurseries, orphanages, settlement houses, and medical facilities across Illinois and organized Black women's political power.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-043; source research type(s): women's club federation.

Sources

Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, 'The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs' (1922). https://archive.org/stream/storyofillinoisf00davi/storyofillinoisf00davi_djvu.txt (primary source)
Wanda A. Hendricks, Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois (Indiana University Press, 1998).
archive.org, 'The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs' (Davis, 1922) (primary source)
archive.org (Davis, 1922) (primary source)
Hendricks, Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest (IU Press, 1998)

Record CTL-E-1250 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 5 sources (3 primary) · CTL research: INST-001.
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