NACW

The creation of the national organization represents another step in an internal historical process of encouraging and supporting self-determination, self-improvement, and community development. Clubs such as NACW, National Association of Colored Women, was mainly the organization that mostly uplifting their race. They wanted white women’s participation, but when it came down to it, whites were about their own race and said, basically, that what they were going through was their own problem. In “The First Step in Nation Making”, Mary Church Terrell spoke on “The Modern Woman”. She was basically saying that women need to step up and be about their business, paraphrasing, and to do more than other women, raising their kids up and instilling in them the right things so that society will eventually be right! The lasting legacy, to me, was that the black women that were apart of this organization stood up for something and spoke out to improve their personal lives, as well as their own race.