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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEGRO BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN

ATLANTA, GA, US • 5 - 9 Employees
City Government/Municipal Government

The National Association of Negro Business and Profesional Women's Clubs, Inc (NANBPWC, Inc.) was founded in July of 1935. The founders were Emma Odessa Young, Ollie Chinn Porter, and Effie Diton of New York City; Bertha Perry Rhodes, Josephine B. Keene and Adelaide Flemming of Philadelphia; and Pearl Flippen of Atlantic City.The Founders were owners, managers, college graduates, and other professionally licensed women, who had managed to realizesuccess, at a time when there was not a national movement to issuess faced by Black business owners.These women after being denied membership to other business and professional associations due to their race created the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs Inc.The mission of the organization is to promote and protect the interests of African American business and professional women; to serve as advisors for young people seeking to enter business and the professions; to improve the quality of life in our local and global communities, and to foster good fellowship. ​NANBPWC, Inc. is comprised of seven districts: The Mid-Atlantic, North Central, Northeast, Southeast, South Central, Western, and International districts.​Over the years, NANBPWC, Inc. has grown in numbers and scope, conducting many needed community service activities that go far beyond the original purposeof the organization to serve the needs of the local community.