Английская Википедия:Dinah Watts Pace

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Dinah Watts Pace (1853–1933) was an American educator who founded black schools in Covington, Georgia and later founded the Covington Colored Children's Orphanage, which she ran for over forty years. Raised as a slave, she received her diploma in education from Atlanta University and gained a nationwide reputation for her charitable work with orphans.

Early life

Dinah Watts Pace was born enslaved on January 9, 1853, near Athens, Clarke County, Georgia to Emily and Sterling Watts, as the property of the Alexander family.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn By the time she was eight years old, Mrs. Alexander headed the household and was running a boarding house with around twelve 12 slaves. Watts and her siblings tried their best to learn as they were able. When the Civil War ended, Watts located to Atlanta, and lived in the Summerhill neighborhood, which at the time was the center of black society. While still a child, she was one of the founders of the Sunday school for the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, which would later become the Reed Street Baptist Church and currently is known as the Paradise Missionary Baptist Church. After five years of attending Sunday schools, Watts entered Atlanta UniversityШаблон:Sfn and graduated in 1883.Шаблон:Sfn

Career

After graduating from university, in 1883, Watts went to Covington, Georgia for what was to be a short few months of teaching. Recognizing the need for education in that part of the state, she founded a school and began teaching.Шаблон:Sfn In 1884, she took in two young orphans and soon other abandoned children followed. That same year, she met a widower, James Pace, a local blacksmith and coffin maker. After his assurance that he would allow her to continue with her work, the two were married. In 1886, Pace resigned her teaching post to devote her time to raising funds for her orphans. She traveled the state trying to secure funds.Шаблон:Sfn In 1890, she incorporated the Covington Colored Orphans Home with the goal of providing care, education and training for orphans or abandoned children who had no one to care for them.Шаблон:Sfn Perhaps her most steadfast benefactor was her brother, Lewis Watts, a Pullman porter. He sent her portions of his pay to support her educational endeavors and helped her not only pay rent on the house she lived in, but helped her acquire the lot to build her orphanage on, as well as construct four buildings to house her 100 students.Шаблон:Sfn A sorority from Wellesley College took on the orphanage as a project and sent boxes of food and clothing.Шаблон:Sfn

Watts spoke widely at events to raise funds for her students, such as participating in events with W.E.B. DuBoisШаблон:Sfn and the Conference on Problems of Negro City Life held at Atlanta University,Шаблон:Sfn among others. Her work was widely covered in the black press nationwideШаблон:Sfn and articles appeared in The Crisis about the orphanage.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn With $1000 seed money from Sarah M. Reed (Mrs. A. C. Reed) of Manchester Vermont, Pace began constructing the Reed Home and School,Шаблон:Sfn a two and a half-story, ten room facility. Eventually, Pace employed three Atlanta University graduates, including her niece Anne Mae Watts, to work at the school.Шаблон:Sfn Then in 1916, a benefactor from Boston donated funds to create the Annie Woods Memorial Hall, as a dormitory for boys,Шаблон:Sfn though the following year, her girls' dormitory was damaged by fire.Шаблон:Sfn Soon after the fire, James Pace died.Шаблон:Sfn

Pace continued to operate the school until her death, but struggled as she aged to keep it running without her fundraising. Her niece, Annie Mae Watts took over the school and ran it for two more years after Watts died, but then it was closed.Шаблон:Sfn The county later burned the buildings on the property and all that is left there is a green space and cemetery. A plaque at the Washington Street Community Center recognizes the importance of Pace and her school to Newton County history.Шаблон:Sfn

Death and legacy

Pace died on January 25, 1933, at the Douglass Infirmary in Atlanta as a result of burns sustained in an accidental fire on January 21, 1933, at her home in Covington. She was buried at South-View Cemetery in Atlanta,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn after her funeral service was held at the Reed Street Baptist Church, which she had helped establish.Шаблон:Sfn She came to be known as the "Mother of the Community" for her work as a social activist and business woman,Шаблон:Sfn but perhaps her biggest legacy was the education she provided for the more than 700 students who passed through her school.Шаблон:Sfn

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