Ken Oilschlager - Juliette Derricotte Collection, 1924-1950 (bulk 1931-1932).

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Ken Oilschlager - Juliette Derricotte Collection, 1924-1950 (bulk 1931-1932).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/374880822

Collection of papers and letters relating to the personal life and death of Juliette Derricotte (1897-1931), advocate of African-American education and first woman trustee of Talladega College.

4 boxes

University of Mississippi

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SNAC Resource ID: 7393663

University of Mississippi

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Derricotte, Juliette, 1897-1931

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Oilschlager, Ken.

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Juliette Derricotte was born in Athens, Georgia on 1 April 1897. In 1918, Derricotte became the first woman trustee of Talladega College. She travelled across the U.S. and abroad on speaking tours in support of black colleges and education. She was a delegate at the convention of the World's Student Christian Federation in 1924 and 1928. She became Dean of Women at Fisk University in 1929. On 6 November 1931, while traveling to visit her mother in Dalton, Georgia, she and three students were ser...