Juanita Craft Collection 1940-1985

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Juanita Craft

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Craft

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Craft, Juanita.

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"I have no natural children. I have adopted the world." These are the words of Juanita Craft. Born in Round Rock, Texas, February 9, 1902, Juanita Jewel Shanks was the granddaughter of slave Amy Black Shanks and the daughter of David and Eliza Shanks. After attending Prairie View College and Samuel Houston College in Austin, Texas, she taught kindergarten and worked as a drugstore clerk in Galveston, Texas from 1922 to 1925. She moved to Dallas in March 1925. From that day forward u...