 The following year the recipients of her scholarship were Elizabeth McCree from Boston, who attended Fisk University, and Margaret Bush Wilson of Talladega College.In 1940, Thurman founded the "Aframerican Women's Journal", the first publishing vehicle of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), which she edited from 1940 until 1944.In 1941, an archive committee was formed to design a plan for collecting works about the achievements of African-American women.