Coordinating Committee for Enforcement of D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1950-1953

These materials document only some of the numerous organizations in which Mary Church Terrell was a founder, leader, or active member. The folders for The Coordinating Committee For Enforcement of D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws and The National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs contain the most materials relative to other organizations in the series. The Coordinating Committee’s materials include pamphlets, fliers, statements, and notices, which document the organization’s work to end segregation by boycotting and picketing D.C. area businesses that refused to comply with anti-discrimination laws. Terrell was a founding member and the first President of The National Association of Colored Women, which later became The National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACWC). The booklets, pamphlets, publications, and correspondence generated by Terrell and the NACWC range in date from 1899 and 1970, and provide information about the members of the organization and their work. The remainder of the series contains printed matter from several of the other organizations in which Terrell was involved.