''Our Women and Children'' was a magazine published in

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by the ''American Baptist'', the state Baptist newspaper. Founded in 1888 by William J. Simmons, president of

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, the magazine featured the work of

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women journalists and covered both juvenile literature and articles focusing on uplifting the race. The magazine staff was made up of women who had an affiliation with State University. Of the hundreds of magazines begun in the United States between 1890 and 1950, very few gave editorial control or ownership to African American Women. ''Our Women and Children'' was one of them. It had a national reputation and became the leading black magazine in Kentucky before it folded in 1891 after Simmons' death. Several well-known journalists were associated with the magazine, including: Mary E. Britton, correspondent;

Lucretia Newman Coleman Lucretia Newman Coleman (1856 – July 31, 1948) was an African-American writer born in British North America to a fugitive slave. Fluent at the end of the nineteenth-century, her works were praised by her contemporaries of the African-American ...

, correspondent; Georgia Mabel DeBaptiste, contributor; Lillian A. Lewis, correspondent; Mrs. N. F. Mossell, correspondent; Mary Virginia Cook Parrish, editor of the Education Department; Lucy Wilmot Smith, editor of the Woman's Department; Lavinia B. Sneed, correspondent; Mrs. C. C. Stumm, correspondent;

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, correspondent; Ione E. Wood, editor of the Temperance Department;

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