Founded in 1968, the Seattle Section National Council of Negro Women is approaching its 45th year of serving this community. The year 2013 will be an historic occasion for our Section.
National
Founded on December 5, 1935, by Mary McLeod Bethune, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) was one of the leading African American women’s organizations of the 20th century. Serving as the organization’s Founder and first President, Dr. Bethune established the NCNW as the “organization of organizations” that would serve as the voice of African American women throughout the nation and the world. During Dr. Bethune’s tenure (1935-1949), the NCNW played a significant role in raising funds for World War II, petitioning for African American women to be a part of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) and assuring that African American women were a part of the political process.
Our Pledge
It is our pledge to make a lasting contribution to all that is finest and best in America, to cherish and enrich her heritage of freedom and progress by working for the integration of all her people, regardless of race, creed, color or national origin into her spiritual, cultural, civic and *economic life, and thus aid her to achieve the glorious destiny of a true and unfettered democracy.
* Life Member, Lillie Jones (now deceased) at a national NCNW convention, made a motion to add economic life to our pledge. It was moved, seconded, and passed.