Английская Википедия:Drusilla Nixon
Drusilla Elizabeth Tandy Nixon (July 15, 1899 – May 10, 1990) was a community activist and music educator in El Paso, Texas.
Background
The daughter of Maud Grant and John Clifford Tandy, she was born Drusilla Elizabeth Tandy in Toledo, Ohio in 1899.Шаблон:Sfn She was educated at Waite High School where she graduated in June 1917 and later attended the University of Toledo.Шаблон:Sfn
Career
After the university was forced to close due to the 1918 flu pandemic, she was hired by the American Missionary Association in Georgia and sent to Atlanta.Шаблон:Sfn By January 1920, she was working as a shipping clerk in Toledo. In November 1920, she moved to Knoxville, Tennessee after marrying Webster Porter, a conservative newspaper owner.Шаблон:Sfn Porter was against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Knoxville.Шаблон:Sfn After her divorce from her first husband, she returned to Toledo.Шаблон:Sfn
She served in a number of positions at Tuskegee Institute, including assistant to Emmett Jay Scott.Шаблон:Sfn She had moved to El Paso for eighteen months in October 1929 to help deal with an asthma condition;[1] Lawrence Nixon, later her third husband, was her physician during this time.Шаблон:Sfn In 1935, she organized the Black Girl Reserves at the YWCA there.Шаблон:Sfn She was a member of the Phillis Wheatley Club in El Paso for forty years, serving as club president at one time.
In 1945, she became a charter member of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) in El Paso.[2][3] She gave talks at SCHW including one given on January 9, 1947, called "Building a Better South."Шаблон:Sfn The El Paso chapter of the SCHW was smeared by the El Paso Herald-Post in a 1948 article that claimed the group was involved with Communism.Шаблон:Sfn This caused the YWCA to break ties with the El Paso SCHW and later that year, the SCHW disbanded by November 1948.Шаблон:Sfn
Nixon continued to represent the YWCA.Шаблон:Sfn She was the first black woman to serve on the board for the El Paso YWCA.[4] She was also vice-president of the Church Women United, the choir director for St. James Myrtle United Methodist Church,Шаблон:Sfn co-chair of the El Paso Parks and Recreation Department, and a member of the El Paso Mental Health Board and the El Paso Council of Churches. Nixon was also involved in the passage of the El Paso anti-discrimination ordinance in 1962.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1978, she was named Woman of the Year by the Phillis Wheatley Club of El Paso.[5]
Private life and death
She was married three times: first to Webster L. Porter, an attorney and newspaper owner, in 1920; the couple divorced two years later after she gave birth to a daughter. She next married Ernest Ten Eyck Attwell in 1927;Шаблон:Sfn the couple, already separated, divorced in November 1935. She married Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon a few days later.[2]
Nixon enjoyed teaching music to children; her students included congresswoman Barbara Lee.[2]
She died in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 10, 1990, at the age of 90.[2]Шаблон:Sfn
Legacy
Nixon was posthumously named an honorary member of the El Paso Women's Hall of Fame.[3]
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