Английская Википедия:Christine Shoecraft Smith

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Christine Shoecraft Smith (July 1, 1866 – 1954) was an African-American community worker began her career as the assistant principal of the Alabama State Normal and Industrial School. She married an AME minister, who would become a bishop in the church and assisted him as the manager of the press organ of the Sunday School Union. She worked in many clubs and served as the 13th president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC).

Early life

Christine Shoecraft was born on July 1, 1866, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Mary B. and A. R. Shoecraft. When she was two years old, Shoecraft's mother died and she was raised by her father and grandmother. The family moved to Muncie, when Shoecraft was eight. Though she worked at washing, ironing and in domestic labor during her schooling, she graduated from high school when she was 17. With her savings from working, she was able to buy her graduation dress.Шаблон:Sfn

Career

Shoecraft was immediately offered a position as assistant principal of the State Normal and Industrial School in Normal, Alabama, serving in that capacity until December, 1887.Шаблон:Sfn The following year, in December, 1888, she married Rev. Charles Spencer Smith.Шаблон:Sfn Rev. Smith was the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)'s Sunday School Union. It was the largest press owned by African-Americans in the United States. Smith went to work at the press and served as a book-keeper, cashier, and clerk before becoming the assistant manager of the Union, the first woman to hold the post. Her work was not interrupted by the birth of their son, Charles Spencer Smith, Jr.Шаблон:Sfn and she founded the Women's Club of Nashville in 1896, aligning it with the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC).Шаблон:Sfn By 1899, Smith was involved with the NACWC and had been elected as its recording secretary.Шаблон:Sfn She continued to serve as the assistant manager of the press through 1900, when Rev. Smith became a bishop of the AME Church.Шаблон:Sfn His work required him to travel widely,Шаблон:Sfn and Smith established a home in Detroit, Michigan.Шаблон:Sfn

Smith was elected president of the Michigan State Association of Colored Women and was an executive member of the Detroit branch of the Urban League. In addition, she served on the executive of the Lucy Thurman YWCA branch and was the residential and maintenance secretary of the Detroit YWCA for six years.Шаблон:Sfn In 1916, Smith organized the Young People's Department of the AME Church's Women's Parent Mite Missionary Society.Шаблон:Sfn In 1923, the year that her husband died, she was elected the first vice president of the Mite Society and in 1931 began serving as president of the organization.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In that capacity, she traveled to Kingston, Jamaica several times, to make presentations and assist them in their missionary work. The Mite Society was an organization of women who both did social work in their community and raised funds to pay the salaries of those working as missionaries work abroad and build new churches.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She served on the executive of numerous clubs and organizations, such as the United Council of Church Women, the Race Relations Commission of the Federal Council of Churches, the Women's Missionary Society. She was a delegate to all of the biennial meetings of the NACWCШаблон:Sfn and in 1946, was elected its president.Шаблон:Sfn As president, she traveled widely throughout the United States and made a to Mexico near the end of her term.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn For several years she had contributed articles to National Notes the newsletter of the NACWC, until it was suspended in 1935. Smith revived the publication in 1947 and became its editor-in-chief.Шаблон:Sfn Her term ended in 1948 and that same year, she was appointed to the board of the National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment.Шаблон:Sfn

Death and legacy

Smith died in 1954.Шаблон:Sfn Her papers created during her years of service to the NACWC are housed in a microfilm collection compiled by the Women's Studies Department from the University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York.Шаблон:Sfn

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