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The association for Black Women Historians was conceived in 1977 by three Black women historians: Eleanor Parker, Eleanor Smith, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. These women were interested in creating an organization that would foster community between black women historians during the late 20th century. Before officially launching the organization in late 1979 in New York, there were multiple meetings held across the country in Cincinnati, California, and Massachusetts, where the women worked to establish a framework for the organization. The framework consisted of there being a committee with elected officials, whose job was to name the organization as well as produce a newsletter entitled Truth, which was named after notable black woman abolitionist, Sojourner Truth.