Agnes Jones Adams

Agnes Jones Adams (1858 – April 1923) was a member of National Association of Colored Women, Social Purity Movement, and Woman's Era Club. Adams was one of the early pioneers for the advancement of black women's clubs.

Biography

Agnes Jones Adams was born in a well-known and respected family in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her basic education in the public schools. Adams was a devoted church worker of the Methodist Church and took on the job of day school teacher. After her marriage she moved to Boston, Massachusetts.

In Boston, Adams joined the Woman's Era Club, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and other organizations. Adams presided over the meeting to organize the National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. She was the Boston branch leader of the NAACP.

Adams was part of the executive board of the Woman's Era Club.

She was present during the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America at Berkeley Hall, Boston, Massachusetts on July 29–31, 1895. Where she discussed social purity and nationalism on Wednesday, July 31. Hallie Q. Brown, a witness to the speech, stated that Adams treated the subject of black women's patriotism with "reserve and care, yet with firmness and clarity."