ETHN 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Delta Sigma Theta, Alpha Kappa Alpha

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Ethnic Studies (ETHN)
• Course: ETHN 001
• Professor: Haines

Document Summary

National association of colored women (nacw), the northeastern federation of colored women"s clubs, the alpha kappa alpha sorority and the delta sigma. Theta sorority strongly sponsored women"s suffrage: these organizations were national or regional in nature and served thousands of. African-american people: some of the women were from the working class, but most of them had a middle class status. In the country, there were at least twenty black women"s suffrage organisations or groups that strongly supported women"s suffrage: three examples give an indicator of the breadth of women"s suffrage programs within black women"s organisations. Texas organized electoral leagues in 1917, the year texas women gained the right to vote: between them was the black women voters league of galveston. In 1919, the northeastern federation of colored women"s clubs, representing thousands of women from toronto to baltimore, demanded membership in the.