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December 5th

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  1. 1935
    The Rise

    National Council of Negro Women founded

    Mary McLeod Bethune convenes fourteen Black women's organizations at 138th Street YWCA in Harlem to charter the National Council of Negro Women. Bethune serves as its first president and uses the council to lobby the Roosevelt White House on federal hiring and anti-lynching legislation.

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