Lucy D. Slowe Papers

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Lucy D. Slowe Papers

1919-1943

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The collection extends from 1919 to 1943, although the bulk of the material covers the years between 1922 and 1937, the period when Ms. Slowe served as Dean of Women at Howard University Washington, D.C. It reflects her various job involvements, as well as her numerous activities in faculty and student affairs. There are also records of her activities an the national level, such as her term as President of the National Association of College Women. Correspondence includes a large number of letters and telegrams of condolence addressed to Dean Slowe's long time companion and confidant, Mary E. Burrill; personal letters from family members, as well as from university and business associates. Correspondents include Julliett Derricotte, Abraham Flexner, Mordecai Johnson and Mary McLeod Bethune.

6 linear ft.

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Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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SNAC Resource ID: 8114619

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955

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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (born Mary Jane McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and resided as president or leader for myriad African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration'...

Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Derricotte, Juliette, 1897-1931

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National Association of College Women (U.S.)

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Slowe family.

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Slowe, Lucy Diggs, 1885-1937

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Lucy Diggs Slowe was born July 4, 1883 in Berryville, Virginia. In 1904 she graduated from Baltimore Colored High School in Baltimore, Maryland. She entered Howard University and was the first girl from Baltimore Colored High School to enter and first to receive a scholarship. Slowe was a tennis champion, winning the national title of the American Tennis Association's first tournament in 1917, the first African-American woman to win a major sports title. After graduating from Howard Univer...

Burrill, Mary, 1803-

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Johnson, Mordecai W.

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African American minister and educator; president of Howard University (1926-1960). From the description of Papers, 1913-1976. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941398 1890 January 12 Born to Carolyn Freeman and Wyatt Johnson in Paris, Tennessee 1911 Received Bachelor of Arts degree from Atlanta Baptist [later Morehous...

Shaw Junior High School (Washington, D.C.)

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Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959

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Abraham Flexner was an educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122473834 Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737398 From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, [195-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat r...