National Association of Wage Earners explained

Defunct:c.
Abbreviation:N.A .of W.E.
Headquarters:1115 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Leader Title:President
Leader Name:Nannie H. Burroughs
Leader Title2:Vice President
Leader Name2:Mary McLeod Bethune

The National Association of Wage Earners was an organisation which sought to standardize and improve living conditions for women, particularly migrant workers. The organisation operated a mail-order clothes factory, and was headquartered in Washington D.C.[1] It was founded by Nannie H Burroughs, who had previously founded a national training school for black girls in 1909.[2] [3] The Association appears to have become defunct by 1926.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Headquarters National Association of Wage Earners, 1115 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. . 2023-11-03 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  2. Web site: Prosperity and Thrift: Guide N-R . 2023-11-03 . memory.loc.gov.
  3. Web site: Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site . 2023-11-03 . www.nps.gov.
  4. Book: Higginbotham . Evelyn Brooks . Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 . 15 March 1994 . Harvard University Press . 978-0-674-25439-8 . 219 . en.

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