Author: Source WikipediaPublisher: University-Press.org
ISBN: 9781230508450
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Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 20. Chapters: Alice Murray, Anna Easter Brown, Beulah Burke, Carrie Snowden, Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, Ethel Jones Mowbray, Harriet Josephine Terry, Joanna Mary Berry Shields, Julia Evangeline Brooks, Lavinia Norman, Lillie Burke, Lucy Diggs Slowe, Margaret Flagg Holmes, Marie Woolfolk Taylor, Marjorie Hill, Minnie B. Smith, Nellie Pratt Russell, Nellie Quander, Norma Elizabeth Boyd, Sarah Meriwether Nutter. Excerpt: Nellie Mae Quander (February 11, 1880 - September 24, 1961) was an incorporator and the first international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. As president for several years, she helped expand the sorority and further its support of African American women at colleges and in communities. The sorority established a scholarship endowment in her name. The legacy of the sorority has continued to generate social capital for nearly 100 years. Quander served as an educator in Washington, DC public schools for 30 years. Early in her career, she earned an M.A. at Columbia University. Later she earned a degree in social work at New York University, plus a diploma at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. She was a leader in civic and community affairs, where she served on the board of directors at the YWCA and YMCA, as executive secretary at the Miner Community Center, as well as in leadership positions with the Women's Trade Union League and other groups. Nellie Quander was born in Washington, D.C. to John Pierson Quander and Hannah Bruce Ford Quander. Her family could trace its lineage and sense of purpose for three hundred years in Maryland and Virginia. They are considered to be one of oldest free African American families whose ancestors had once been enslaved in America. Nellie Quander's relatives included maternal grand-uncle Blanche K. Bruce, a Senator from Mississippi during Reconstruction. Her father was...
