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287:(1894–1897), the first national newspaper published for and by African American women. Cook shared the CWL's 1894 accomplishments that included raising $ 1,935 towards a permanent league home; hosting a series of public lectures for girls at a local high school and at Howard University; establishing CWL-sponsored classes in German, English literature and hygiene; the establishment of a sewing school and mending bureau with 88 students and ten teachers; the payment of tuition for two nursing students and part salary to hire a kindergartner teacher. CWL member Mary Church Terrell provided subsequent updates from Washington, D.C., league efforts to the newspaper. 33: 431:, which would give citizens the right to vote, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, humiliated women. Anthony said, according to one news account, "he ballot ...is put in the hands of every man outside the State Prison, whether they have sufficient sense to cast their ballots or not, yet the women of the country were compelled to humiliate themselves in pleading for rights that should have been accorded them long ago." Anthony continued and "drew comparisons between many of the ex-slaves and the large number of women of high intellectual rank compelled to acknowledge their political inferiority to these". 347: 362:, president of the Woman's Era Club of Boston, invited all African American women to convene for a three-day conference in Boston to discuss critical issues related to Black women's "moral, mental, physical and financial growth and well-bring" following disparaging remarks about the character of African American women by John Jacks, president of the Missouri Press Association. 239:, was one of the founding association member. Helen Cook was a member for nearly 35 years and held various leadership positions. In 1880, she was the first African-American woman to be elected secretary of the association, a position she held for ten years. African-American men also supported the association. 398:
A year later, African-American women's clubs from across the country gathered in Washington, D.C., for a convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Woman with Mrs. Booker T. Washington presiding. On July 20, 1896, the second day of the convention, a motion passed for a committee to create
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By 1903, the league had a permanent building at 1931 12th Street, Northwest, which offered temporary room, board, and a day nursery. Additionally, with Helen Cook still the elected president, the organization had the largest membership of any African American women's club in the country, according to
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in Washington, D.C., joined the Board of Trustees in 1872. John F. Cook, Jr., Helen Cook's husband, joined the board in 1885, provided financial assistance, and helped influence Congress for continued funding. Congressional appropriations, though, ended in 1892. The Association maintained a building
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Helen Cook died from pneumonia and heart failure on November 20, 1913, in Washington, D.C., at the family Cook residence (1118 Sixteenth Street, Northwest). One African American newspaper noted that she was "easily the wealthiest colored woman in the District of Columbia. The Cook estate has been
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over disparaging "a noble manhood" or African American men. Cook noted Anthony's "great influence with other women... power to direct their thoughts and endeavors" and suggested Anthony support universal suffrage before negative views about Black men and their suffrage gained greater popularity.
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I was born to an inheritance of appreciation and sympathy for the cause of women's rights, my mother before me being so ardent a supporter of its doctrines that I felt myself, in a measure, identified with it. Among my earliest recollections are the Sunday afternoon meetings, held at the home of
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League members envisioned a national organization from its inception, according to an 1893 article by founding member Mary Church Terrell. "The Colored Women's League recently organized in Washington has cordially invited women in all parts of the country to unite with it so that we may have a
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was the forerunner to today's National Parent Teachers Association. In her speech "We Have Been Hindered: How Can We Be Help?", she denounced those who identify negative behavior traits as inherent among African-American instead of looking at the negative traits as a response to the effects of
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On the convention's first day, Helen Cook gave an address titled "The Ideal National Union", calling for unity and outlining the goals and purpose of a national organization supporting Black women. Cook also spoke about a vision for a national organization on the last day of the conference.
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presented a resolution to form a national organization. An additional day was added to the convention and held at Charles St. Church to discuss creating a national organization. The resolution passed, and a committee was formed to work through the details of a national organization.
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married in 1864. He became the wealthiest African American resident in Washington, D.C., with a reported worth of $ 200,000 in 1895. His professional endeavors included an appointment as D.C.'s chief tax collector (1874 to 1884), serving as a trustee of
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for people without housing and orphans at Eighth and Euclid Streets, Northwest, with standing committees on Admission and Dismission, Household Management, Education, and Clothing. At the time of her death, Helen Cook was President of the association.
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The Cooks had five children, including Elizabeth Appo Cook (1864–1953), John Francis Cook, III (1868–1932), Charles Chaveau Cook (abt 1871–1910), George Frederick Cook (1874–1927), and Ralph Victor Cook (1875–1949).
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considered to be worth not less than a quarter of a million dollars...Mrs. Cook was greatly interested in Negro organizations and charity work and was a woman of kindly heart and broad sympathies." Cook was buried at
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held at Atlanta University. The purpose of the conference series (1896–1914) was to identify difficulties the African American community faced and suggest solutions. Others invited to submit papers included
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Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the Afro-American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust
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Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the Afro-American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust
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teachers and maintained seven free kindergartens and several day nurseries. The league also established sewing schools, night schools and penny-saving banks.
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Report of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Convention of the National Congress of Mothers, Held in the City of Washington, D.C., May 2nd-7th, 1898
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Days later, Helen Cook responded "with pained surprise" to Susan B. Anthony's congressional testimony through a letter published in
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In May 1898, Helen Cook spoke at the Second Annual Convention of the National Congress of Mothers, held in Washington, D.C. The
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As a teenager, Helen Cook attended meetings about women's rights with her mother. She self-identified with the women's cause:
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also appeared at the Congress of Mothers Conference and, on May 6, presented a paper titled "The History of the Negro Home".
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a union between the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the Colored Women's League. The new organization, the
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Helen Cook was born to William Appo, a prominent musician, and Elizabeth Brady Appo, who owned a millinery business in
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July 29–31, 1895. Officers of the Convention were responsible for making conference arrangements and included
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to provide "suitable home, board, clothing, and instructions, and to bring them under Christian influences".
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outlining Cook's history engaged with women's rights. Cook appealed to Anthony to promote the cause of
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First annual report of the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children
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spoke at the hearing of "ignoramuses who held the elective franchise". Anthony suggested the proposed
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and other Cook family members. The law firm Carlisle, Luckett & Howe handled Cook's estate.
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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Awful Hush, 1895 to 1906
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At nearly seventy years old, Helen Cook and her husband, John F. Cook, Jr., traveled to
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History of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, inc.: a legacy of service
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Later in 1898, W.E.B. DuBois invited Helen Cook to submit a paper for the third annual
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following Anthony's speech at a U.S. Congress House Committee on Judiciary hearing.
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in the firm Cook, Cook and White, which manufactured bricks from 1904 to 1906.
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The Colored Women's League and twenty-four other clubs nationally attended the
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Defining the struggle: national organizing for racial justice, 1880–1915
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Defining the struggle: national organizing for racial justice, 1880–1915
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of First Congregational Church (Atlanta, Georgia), journalist and attorney
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Over time, the Colored Women's League established a training center for
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Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois
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African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement
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Cook wrote the first "Washington Letter" about the activities of the
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As an adult, Cook attended the first suffrage convention held in
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Some Efforts of American Negroes for Their Own Social Betterment
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community activist in Washington, D.C., and a leader in the
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George Henry White: an even chance in the race of life
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Second National Conference of Colored Women of America
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Index


New York
Washington, D.C.
John F. Cook Jr.
African-American
women's club movement
Colored Women's League
National Association of Colored Women
Niagara Movement
Susan B. Anthony
universal suffrage
New York
Lucretia Mott
George Thompson
Washington, D.C.
National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children
United States Congress
Elizabeth Keckley
Mary Todd Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
Dr. Charles B. Purvis
Wormley's Hotel
Ida B. Wells
Anna Julie Cooper
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Mary Church Terrell
Colored Women's League
The Woman's Era
National Congress of Mothers
W.E.B. DuBois

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