Freedom Enterprise, xii (Detroit Association of [Colored] Women’s Clubs (DAWC))

Identifier

DBB-ITM-02609

Source

Kendra D. Boyd, Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Pages: xii.

Source Type

Boyd Research Findings

Activity

community and social needs

Principal

Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (Detroit Association of Women’s Clubs / DAWC)

Location

5461 Brush St

Transcript

Detroit Association of [Colored] Women’s Clubs (DAWC).
This organization was formed in 1921 from a group of eight
Black women’s clubs in the city. The association’s home, located
at 5461 Brush Street at the corner of East Ferry, was purchased
in 1941. The DAWC had more than seventy affiliated clubs at its
height in 1945. The organization later dropped the word “Colored”
from its name.

Title

Freedom Enterprise, xii (Detroit Association of [Colored] Women’s Clubs (DAWC))

Detroit Black Business