Interracial Conference of Church Women, Eagles Mere, Pa., September 21-22, 1926
Group portrait of attendees at the Interracial Conference of Church Women, Eagles Mere, Pa., September 21-22, 1926. <br /><br />The conference was held by the Commission on the Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Inc. (the Federal Council of Churches), the Council of Women for Home Missions, and the National Board of the YWCA. <br /><br />Mrs. Richard W. Westbrook (Mary L. Westbrook) of Brooklyn, NY, was the conference chairman. She stands in the front row (fifth from right) next to <a href="https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/brown-charlotte-hawkins0" target="_blank" title="NCpedia article on Charlotte Hawkins Brown" rel="noreferrer noopener">Charlotte Hawkins Brown</a>, founder of Palmer Memorial Center, who stands in the front row center. <br /><br />Delegates identified: <br />First row: <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006944501&view=2up&seq=616" target="_blank" title="article by Brown. See page 587 for photo" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Sara W. Brown</a> (YWCA), second from left. <br />Mrs. L. W. Kyles (A.M.E. Zion Church, Winston Salem, NC), third from left.<br /><a href="https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/brown-charlotte-hawkins0" target="_blank" title="NCpedia article on Charlotte Hawkins Brown" rel="noreferrer noopener">Charlotte Hawkins Brown</a> (founder Palmer Memorial Center), center. <br />Mary L. Westbrook (conference chair), fifth from right.<br />Miss <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_del_Vakia_Bowles" target="_blank" title="biographical information" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eva del Vakia Bowles</a> (YWCA), second from right.<br /><br />Second row: <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/organizations/labor/anderson-mary/" target="_blank" title="Mary Anderson, Social Welfare History Project" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mary Anderson</a> (first director U.S. Women's Bureau) third from left. <br />Mrs. John Ferguson (Council of Women for Home Missions), fourth from right.<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Edmund_Haynes" target="_blank" title="biographical information on George Edmund Haynes" rel="noreferrer noopener">George Edmund Haynes</a> (sociologist, National Urban League), fourth row center.<br /><br />Third row: Adele Clark (League of Women Voters), left at end.<br /><br />Top row: <a href="https://findingaids.library.uic.edu/sc/MSDiec74.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid to Dieckmann papers at UIC" rel="noreferrer noopener">Annetta M. Dieckmann</a> (YWCA, Industrial Dept.), third from left.<br /><br />The Eagles Mere conference was noteworthy because it brought together white and black women leaders to study the possibilities of larger cooperation. Also of significance, delegates to the conference represented both the North and the South, giving the discussions a nationwide scope (<em>Federal Council Bulletin</em>, September-October, 1926, p.7).<br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="documents related to Interracial Conference of Church Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to this conference.
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Church Women Explore Interracial Paths, Federal Council Bulletin, September-October, 1926
Pages 7-8 (front and back) removed from <em>Federal Council Bulletin</em>, September-October, 1926. The article, "Church Women Explore Interracial Paths," details an interracial conference held on September 21-22, 1926 at Eagles Mere, Pa.<br /><br />The conference was organized by the Commission on the Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churchs, the Council of Women for Home Missions, and the National Board of the Y.W.C.A. It was attended by delegates from numerous denominations and organizations. Adele Clark of Richmond, Va. attended representing the National League of Women Voters. <br /><br />The object of the conference, according to the chair Mrs. Richard W. Westbrook (Mary L. Westbrook), was<br /><br />"(1) To enlarge the scope of interracial thinking and to enlist the women of the churches more actively in plans and programs for improving the relations between the white and colored groups in America; <br />(2) To discuss methods of better interracial organization through churches and their auxiliaries so that women may more effectively act on local interracial conditions; <br />(3) To exchange concrete experiences from groups of women that have already attempted to carry out interracial programs;<br />(4) To study the past experience of organizations that have done such work, to learn both from the sucesses and failures of such efforts how best to proceed in the future;<br />(5) To understand better the present trend of feeling and opinion in race relations that the Churches may more effectively work for interracial goodwill and cooperation."<br /> <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="Documents related to the Interracial Conference of Church Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to the conference.
Federal Council of Churches
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1926 September-October
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Letter to Adele Clark from Mary L. Westbrook, Federal Council of Churches, April 23, 1928
Letter from Mary L. Westbrook (Mrs. Richard W. Westbrook), Chairman, Church Women's Committee on Race Relations, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Inc. (Federal Council of Churches), sent to Adele Goodman Clark in her capacity as a representative of the National League of Women Voters at the 1926 Interracial Conference of Church Women. <br /><br />The letter describes a second conference planned for September 1928, and requests Clark begin planning to send delegates from the NLWV. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />"The past year and a half has disclosed problems which cause us to believe that there is need for the leaders of church women's organizations throughout the Nation to meet in conference again to discuss these problems, and to devise further plans and means of carrying forward the effective work begun so auspiciously following the epoch-making Interracial Conference of Church Women at Eagles Mere, Pa., Spetember 21-22, 1926, held by this Commission in cooperatin with the Council of Women for Home Missions and the National Board of the YWCA. <br /><br />This conference requested the Commission to form a Church Women's Committee on Race Relations, and this Committee, including representatives of practically every religious organization affiliated with the Federal Council of Churches, has been actively promoting parts of the program adopted at the Eagles Mere Conference. Correspondence with church women's groups in all parts of the Country has disclosed an unusual activity in race relations among them with a growing consciousness about the need of religion applied to the race problem. In many sections local committees were already in existence or have been formed; regional conferences in the Philadelphia and Chicago areas have been held with fruitful results."<br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="Documents related to the conference" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to the Interracial Conference of Church Women.
Westbrook, Mary L.
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1928 April 23
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