It is the mission of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc to help women improve the quality of life for themselves, their families, and the community.
The Northwest Virginia Section was organized in 1990 by several at-large members. The Northwest Virginia Section has been instrumental in continuing the legacy that Dr. Bethune began more than 69 years ago. Through its numerous activities aimed at empowering women, their respective families and the community, the Northwest Virginia Section maintains a strong and active presence in the counties of Prince William, Fairfax, Loudon, and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.
It is the mission of the
National Council of Negro Women, Incorporated to help women improve the quality of life for themselves, their families, and the community.
It is our pledge to make a lasting contribution to all that is finest and best in America, to cherish and enrich her heritage of freedom and progress by working for the integration of all her people regardless of race, creed, or national origin, into her spiritual, social, civic, and economic life, and thus aid her to achieve the glorious destiny of a true and unfettered democracy.
As the daughter of former slaves in South Carolina, Mary McLeod Bethune was a distinguished educator and served as an adviser in the presidential administrations of Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman. Dr. Bethune recognized the need for organized unity among black women, which would facilitate a forum to address the many challenges confronting the black community and to open the many doors that were closed to blacks. She proposed the establishment of a united organization of black women, which through collective unity could bring the issues to the forefront. Dr. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in New York on December 5, 1935, for which she served as president for 14 years. In addition, Dr. Bethune founded Bethune-Cookman College in 1904 and she was a tireless crusader for civil and human rights.
