Eloquent Ladies Civic and Social Club, an affiliate of the National Association of Colored Women’s Club Inc., will celebrate their third annual Black History program Saturday, Feb. 25.
Free and open to the public, the program will be held at the family life center of Mount Harmony Missionary Baptist Church, 812 E. Harding Ave.
At 11 a.m., an Antiques and Collectible Appraisal Show will be held and attendees may bring items for a free appraisal. Items may include china, books, small furniture, quilts, clocks, vases, lamps, LP’s and coins. L.B. Strickland, Theresa Martin and Mary Swift will appraise items on site.
At 2 p.m., the celebration continues with a narrative and pictorial Black History presentation. The featured guest speaker will be Michelle Crater Grice, a voice over artist, author of Opportunity Speaks Inc., and general studies professor at Arkansas Baptist College. Fashions by D.C. Dezigns will be showcased. Special musical performances will be rendered by the youth of the Merrill Community Center and Paul Shelley, a saxophonist.
The National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs was founded in 1896 by American women of color in Washington, D.C.
Independent reporting for Pine Bluff & Jefferson County since 1879.
In 1986, in Hot Springs, the Eloquent Ladies Young Adult Club was officially sworn into the parent body as the Eloquent Ladies Civic and Social Club.
The club’s charitable contributions include giving Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets to disadvantaged families, providing cash donations to the United Negro College Fund, volunteering time and making cash contributions to the Jerry Lewis Telethon, awarding an Annual Book Award Scholarship to a high school senior, supporting the Salvation Army’s women’s ministries, Salvation Army Red Kettles and Angel Tree campaigns, adopting underprivileged families with the Department of Human Services, assisting the Red Cross with cash donations, sponsoring a diabetes workshop, sponsoring a mental health awareness workshop, providing services to the tutorial program at the Family Community Development Center, cooperating with CASA Women’s Shelter with various toiletries and supporting NACWC in fund-raising projects.
Juanita L. Cook is president of the Eloquent Ladies. Linda Murray, a member of the Eloquent Ladies, is president of the Arkansas Association of Colored Women’s Clubs Inc.