NBK HISTORY BROTHERS (Blog): MINNIE PICKENS (2950 hits)
The fourth PAC was organized in 1927 in New York by the Women's International Circle of Peace and Foreign Relations, a black women's club in New York led by Minnie Pickens, Addie W. Hunton, and Nina Du Bois, W.E.B.'s first wife. The Congress gathered 208 delegates from the United States and ten foreign countries, including the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria.