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Interracial Conference of Church Women, Eagles Mere, Pa., September 21-22, 1926
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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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M 9 Box 239, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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1926 September
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Learn more: <br /><br />Adams, B. L. (2016). Black women's Christian activism. Seeking social justice in a northern suburb. New York: New York University Press. <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="items tagged Interracial Conference of Church Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">Interracial Conference of Church Women</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Adele Clark
Federal Council of Churches
George Edmund Haynes
Interracial Conference of Church Women
Mary Anderson
Pennsylvania
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race
race relations
religion
Sara W. Brown
YWCA