Sallie Wyatt Stewart (January 3, 1881 – July 1951) was an American educator and a social services organizer for the black community in Evansville, Indiana, who is best known for her leadership in local, state, and national black women’s clubs. Stewart served as president of the Indiana Federation of Colored Women from 1921 to 1928 and succeeded Mary McLeod Bethune as president of the National Association of Colored Women from 1928 to 1933. During her term as the IFCW's president, Stewart launched "The Hoosier Woman", a monthly newsletter that served as the organization's official publication. Among her accomplishments as the NACW's president was the founding in 1930 of the National Association of Colored Girls. In addition, Stewart was a delegate in 1930 to the International Council of Women in Vienna, Austria, and fourth vice president of the National Council of Women of the United States. She also served a trustee and secretary of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, a member of the executive committee of the National Negro Business League, a member of the executive committee of the National Colored Merchants Association, and a teacher in the Evansville public schools for more than fifty years. The Tennessee native migrated to Evansville, Indiana, during her youth and worked in domestic service before becoming a teacher and developing a real estate business with her husband. Stewart's philanthropic efforts also began in Evansville. In the 1910s and 1920s, she established along with other women the Evansville Federation of Colored Women, a women's service organization; the Day Nursery Association for Colored Children, a local child care center; the Phyllis Wheatley Home, a recreation center and boardinghouse for young women; and the Evansville Colored Association of College Women's Clubs, among others. Stewart was also a charter member and first secretary of the Evansville chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; served in 1927 as an officer on the Evansville Inter-Racial Commission; and in 1928 chaired an auxiliary of the tuberculosis association of Vanderburgh County, Indiana. During World War II, she organized the Colored Women's War Work Committee in Evansville, which sold war bonds and stamps. Early life and education Sallie Wyatt was born in Ensley, Tennessee on January 3, 1881, to Armstead and Eliza (Jones) Wyatt and moved with the family to Evansville, Indiana, in 1883. Shortly after the family's arrival in Indiana, Armstead Wyatt became disabled. Working as