(CIVIL RIGHTS WOMEN) OLCOTT JANE Compiler The Work of Color

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(CIVIL RIGHTS--WOMEN.) OLCOTT, JANE, Compiler. The Work of Colored Women. Large folding chart and additional illustrations throughout. 8vo, original embossed, printed stiff grey cardstock wrappers. An exceptional copy. New York: Colored Work Committee, War Work Council, (1919)

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first and only edition. The Colored Work Committee was organized in1917. Some of these young women's efforts were connected with the war effort, while others went into poverty-stricken areas of the deep South to teach, and helped obtain better working conditions for factory workers in the cities. By 1919, the Colored Work Committee of the Y.W.C.A. had branches all over the country.