Rubie (Mrs. Frank) Bond was active for many years in Beloit human and civil rights organizations. The Women's Community Club, an organization of young black women which was founded on May 9, 1943. The club emphasized ideals of education and service, and strove to improve home and community life among the city's black population. Mrs. Bond also helped organize the Mother's Club. Founded on the same date as the WCC, this organization worked to improve home life and surroundings, health, education, social and religious life; and to promote better public and community relations, and fuller employment. Mrs. Bond served as the first president. WCC efforts in the 1940s included protests against racial discrimination in local Girl Scout troops and in local hospital wards.
