Joanna Snowden Porter

Joanna Snowden Porter (February 14, 1864 – October 1, 1941) was an American clubwoman based in Chicago; she was founder and president of the Northwestern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.

She graduated from Englewood High School before attending business college in Chicago.

[7] She was founder and president of the Northwestern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, served on the National Speakers' Bureau with Hallie Quinn Brown, treasurer of the Phyllis Wheatley Home for Colored Girls, and part of the Colored Women's Department of the Republican National Committee.

She also wrote articles for National Notes, a black women's news magazine.

[8] Joanna C. Hudlum married Samuel R. Snowden, a saloon keeper, in 1884.