Ethel Earley Clark is the only woman among the original founders of the Negro Garden Club of Virginia. The club promotes four main values: home improvement, community improvement, improving race relations, and recreation and creative self-expression.


Williams, H. Hamilton. Handbook of the Negro Garden Club of Virginia. Hampton, Virginia: Hampton institute, Department of ornamental horticulture and Division of summer and extension study cooperating, 1943. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924002827545&view=1up&seq=3&skin=2021