Ladies Colored Social Circle forms in Seattle in 1889.

  • By Helen Lacy
  • Posted 11/07/1998
  • HistoryLink.org Essay 257
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In 1889, the Ladies Colored Social Circle, the first African American social organization for women, forms. Members include Mrs. Fred Lawrence, Mrs. Logan, and Rebecca Grose Dixon.

The club held weekly meetings in members' homes and planned musicals and literary programs.


Sources:

Esther Hall Mumford. Seattle's Black Victorians 1851-1901 (Seattle: Ananse Press, 1980), 132.


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