 The National Federation of Afro-American Women, which became the National Association of Colored Women the following year, was organized during the conference.In 1892, Boston activist Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin founded the Woman's Era Club, an advocacy group for black women, with the help of her daughter, Florida Ruffin Ridley, and educator Maria Louise Baldwin.It was the first black women's club in Boston, and one of the first in the country.