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Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset (June 27, 1893 – March 27, 1965) [1] was a civil rights activist, social worker, race relations specialist, and the first female African American state legislator elected in the United States, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Born in Maryland and raised in Boston, Fauset started her professional career as a ...
Alma mater. University of Maryland, College Park (BA) Occupation (s) Social worker, educator. Known for. First African American graduate of University of Maryland. Elaine Johnson Coates (born September 15, 1937) is an American social worker and educator. She is the first African American graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park.
In 1915, she was the first black person admitted to the graduate studies program, and earned a degree in social work in 1916. [1] After graduation, Cargile was the first black social worker hired for New York City and New York County Charities. [5] Cargile moved to Jacksonville, Florida, when hired as a social worker the Duval County Welfare ...
Jane Edna Hunter (December 13, 1882 – January 13, 1971), an African-American social worker, Hunter was born on the Woodburn Farm plantation near Pendleton, South Carolina. She was involved in the NAACP and NAACW. Jane Edna Hunter is widely Known for her work in 1911 when she established the Working Girls Association in Cleveland, Ohio, which ...
Social activism was also associated with Communism and a "weaker" woman's work orientation. In response to this change, women sociologists in the department "were moved inmasse out of sociology and into social work" in 1920. [145] The contributions of Jane Addams and other Hull House residents were buried in history. [146]
Albertus Bethune. . . (m. 1898; sep. 1907) . Children. 1. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955 [1]) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican ...
Veola Hamilton Beverly (mother) Inez Beverly Prosser (c. 1895 - September 5, 1934) was a psychologist, teacher and school administrator. She is often regarded as the first African-American female to receive a Ph.D in psychology. Her work was very influential in the hallmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling.
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [ 2 ] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Over the span of her career, Walker has published ...