Detroit Association of Women's Clubs

The Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs was organized on April 8, 1921, with eight clubs. This association reached its peak membership in 1945 with seventy-three clubs and three thousand members. Affiliated with the Michigan and the National Associations of Colored Women’s Clubs, the Detroit association fosters educational, philanthropic, and social programs. The association was incorporated in 1941. That same year, supported by a mortgage on its president’s home, the association purchased its present clubhouse, a handsome Colonial Revival-style structure. The club members completely paid for the clubhouse in less than five years. The association sponsors girls’ clubs, scholarships, annual clothing drives for needy school children, and charitable programs for seniors and the dispossessed. Its motto is “Lifting As We Climb.”