---
title: 'Address Before the Women’s Meeting'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Lucy Craft Laney'
date: 1897-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
- 'Children and Youth'
- 'Education'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 31'
- 'Titus 2'
- 'Luke 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/laney-1897-address-before-the-womens-meeting
---

# Address Before the Women’s Meeting

Lucy C. Laney urges Black women to prioritize motherhood, moral home-making, and active child-rearing as central to family stability and the race's civic and spiritual future.

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