Allen, Ethel D., 1929-1981
Ethel D. Allen once described herself as, "BFR—a black female Republican, an entity as rare as a black elephant and just as smart." In her career she challenged sexism and racism, and was devoted to the disadvantaged in her community as both a health care provider and a politician.
One of three children, Allen was born in 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she lived and worked for most of her life. Her father, Sidney S. Allen, Sr. was a self-employed tailor, and her mother, known only as Mrs. Sidney S. Allen, was the only one of Allen's parents to graduate from high school. As a single parent she took on the legal guardianship of a child called Kathy Ann, whose parents had died shortly after her birth.
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