ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how Black Club women shaped social and legal justice for Black youth, through the development of institutions designed to protect them. This chapter discusses the role of Black community women and educators in the Virginia area, introducing Janie Porter Barrett, the President of the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, who played an intricate part in the funding and creation of the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls. It provides a background of the larger Black Club Woman’s movement, spearheaded by Mary Church Terrell, the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs and the role this progressive organization played in shaping a transformative justice ideology, which I argue, exemplified a resistance spirit of Black girl radiance and highlighted the effectiveness of Black women’s leadership.
