The Club Women

• Most clubs were segregated
• Middle and upper class Black woman formed their own clubs
• Black women's clubs concerned with same social issues as white clubs as well as

      - Lynching
      - Segregation

• Popularity of women's clubs grew in 1880s
• Outlet for middle and upper class women
• Concerned with social betterment

      - Education and school reform
      - Settlement houses
      - Planting trees
      - Building hospitals