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{{Short description|American organization for black women}}
The '''International Council of Women of the Darker Races''' ('''ICWDR''') was an organization for black women based in the [[United States]] and headed by [[Margaret Murray Washington]]. In existence from 1922 to 1940, the ICWDR was "the first autonomous international organization among [[African American women]]".<ref name=Rief>{{cite journal | author=Michelle Rief | title=Thinking Locally, Acting Globally: The International Agenda of African American Clubwomen, 1880-1940 | journal=[[The Journal of African American History]] | volume=89 | issue=3 | date=Summer 2004 | pages=203–222| doi=10.2307/4134075 | jstor=4134075 | s2cid=144659723 }}</ref>
==History==
The International Council of Women of the Darker Races was formed after the 1922 meeting of the [[NACW]] in [[Richmond, Virginia]]. Margaret Murray Washington appears to have had the idea of such an organization in mind for some time. At the ICWDR's founding meeting, Washington was elected president. Other officers appointed were [[Mary Church Terrell]], [[Addie Hunton]], [[Elizabeth Carter]], [[Charlotte Hawkins Brown]], [[Mary S. Josenberger]], [[Nannie Burroughs]], [[Lugenia Burns Hope]], [[Addie Whiteman Dickerson|Addie Dickerson]] and [[Emily Williams]]. [[Adelaide Casely Hayford]], visiting from [[Sierra Leone]], was also a founding member.<ref name=Rief/>
The ICWDR initially concentrated on education, developing a program of [[African-American literature|black literature]] and [[History of the African diaspora|history]], and supporting Casely Hayford's school in Sierra Leone. After Washington died in 1925, Addie Hunton became president. In 1928 she was succeeded by Addie Dickerson of [[Philadelphia]]. After Dickerson died in 1940, the ICWDR did not survive her.<ref name=Rief/>
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[[Category:African-American women's organizations]]
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