HISTORY OF THE OKLAHOMA CITY FEDERATION OF COLORED WOMEN’S CLUB
Presented on June 2, 2013
Founder’s Day Celebration
Presidents updated as of 2019
This is a partial history of the Oklahoma City Federation of Colored Women’s Club as compiled by Zenia
DeBouse. This information was obtained from Internet and secretarial records and is not intended to be
complete. Scholars say that teaching history has many important benefits. Studying history improves our decision making and judgment. It shows us models of good and responsible citizenship, teaches us how to learn from the mistakes of others, help us understand change and societal development. History provides us a context from which to understand ourselves and others. This is why the history of OKCFC is so important. The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. (NACWC) was established in July 1896 as a merger between the National League of Colored Women and the National Federation of Afro-American Women. The merger enabled the NACWC to function as a national umbrella group for local and regional Black women’s organizations. The NACWC is a great society of women united for service to raise the standards of the home and extend their service to help make better communities. Mary Church Terrell was the organization's first president. The NACWC adopted the motto - Lifting as We Climb with the intention of showing ignorant and suspicious world that our aims and interests are identical with those of all good aspiring women
The Oklahoma Federation of Negro Women's Clubs was formed in 1910, and the name was officially changed to the Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (OFCWC) in 1924. OKCFC History
We are a group of women who belong to two different clubs in Oklahoma City that have one common goal—To raise the level of women and children to the highest plane in the home, morally, socially, spiritually, economically, and civically.
