[1][2] Laura Coleman, the founder, wanted to create a club to both improve the lives of the members and the community.
[3] Thirteen attended the first meeting of the club in 1895, which was meant to enlighten the members in both intellectual and moral ways.
[5] At the conference, her husband Booker T. Washington discussed the problems that the black male faced and gave possible solutions.
[8] Margaret Murray Washington was the organizer and the first president of the Alabama Federation of Colored Women's Club (AFCWC), which was established on December 29, 1899.
[10] During the preliminary meeting of the club there were discussions of how to address the mounting reform problem; one of the pressing needs was to establish a reformatory for African American youths.
[11] The Federation was successful in getting young black prisoners released into the custody of its boys' school built at Mt.
[10] Alabama took over responsibility for the boys' reformatory school and AFCWC raised money for housing for young girls at Mt.