Margaret Murray Washington

Now here's another black history moment I never knew about, the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America held in 1895. The First National Conference of the Colored Women of America was a three-day conference in Boston organized by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, a civil rights leader and suffragist. In August 1895, representatives from 42 African-American … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: African Americans In The Gilded Age