With lobbying by the Non-Partisan Council, Slowe Hall was built to house black women during World War II and would later become a dorm for Howard University.

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With lobbying by the Non-Partisan Council, Slowe Hall was built to house black women during World War II and would later become a dorm for Howard University.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Employment - Non-Partisan Council

In 1938, the National Non-partisan Council on Public Affairs (NPC), an outgrowth of the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority, became the first organization devoted to lobbying the federal government to advance African American civil rights. The group…