Helen Webb Harris founded the Wake-Robin Golf Club in 1937.
It is the United States' oldest registered African-American women's golf club.
[4][5] In 1938 the club drafted and sent a petition to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes seeking to desegregate the public courses of the District of Columbia.
[1] In 1947 Harris was elected as the first female president of the Eastern Golf Association, a position which she held for two terms.
[4] The Wake-Robin Golf Club was part of the movement to force the Professional Golfers Association to drop its "White-only" rule for eligibility, which it did in 1961.