Helen Hubbard was elected the inaugural president of Reno’s Colored Women’s Unity Club in February 1927. Alicia Barber notes that it was likely organized to serve a similar civic function as the Twentieth Century Club, a White women’s club organized in Reno in 1894 that was “open to all women of good repute.” 

The Colored Women’s Unity Club intended to construct its own clubhouse but lasted as an organization less than three years before folding and contributing its treasury to Bethel AME Church.

The club was part of a national movement that began establishing clubs for Black women as early as 1892.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sources

“Election of Officers,” Nevada State Journal, February 13, 1927.

There were a handful of “Colored Women’s Unity Clubs” across the country and even in Canada

starting in the mid-1910s.