To be a Woman Sublime Summary and Analysis

Most women's clubs are formed when women are excluded from some place or event. Fannie Barrier Williams notes that the success of White women in the area of creating activists' clubs inspires Black women to do the same. In some ways, the groups are similar. For example, both see families as "microorganisms" and a vital part of society. However, White women are generally moving ahead in their causes more quickly than the Black women. It is generally accepted that Black women are bound by their ties to the race as a whole. In 1899, living conditions for Blacks has so greatly deteriorated that someone suggests that the entire race could be killed off.

Mary Church Terrell realizes that Black women typically hold a job outside the home and that they have little time or...