National Association of Colored Women's Clubs

It adopted the motto "Lifting as we climb", to demonstrate to "an ignorant and suspicious world that our aims and interests are identical with those of all good aspiring women."

The organization helped all African-Americans through its work on issues of civil rights and injustice, such as women’s suffrage, lynching, and Jim Crow laws.

Founders of the NACWC included Harriet Tubman, Margaret Murray Washington,[8] Frances E. W. Harper, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Victoria Earle Matthews, Josephine Silone Yates, and Mary Church Terrell.

[11] Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and Mary Church Terrell made major contributions to the National Association of Colored Women.

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin used part of her estate to fund Woman’s Era, the first journal published by and for African-American women.