Woman’s Era Clubs hold their national convention in Boston.

Attended by 104 delegates from 14 states, the event is held at Berkeley Hall and the Charles Street A.M.E. Church. In the May 1894 issue of Woman’s Era magazine, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin had written, “Boston has been selected as a meeting place because it has seemed to be the general opinion that here, and here only, can be found the atmosphere which would best interpret and represent us, our position, our needs and our aims.” The convention launches the National Federation of Afro-American Women, headed by Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T. Washington. The group merges with the League of Colored woman in 1896.