Английская Википедия:Ethel Cuff Black
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Ethel Cuff Black (October 17, 1890 – September 17, 1977) was an American educator and one of the founders of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.[1] She was the first African-American school teacher in Richmond County, New York.[2]
Early life
Ethel L. Cuff was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1890.[1][2] Her father was Richard Cuff, a banker and business owner, which allowed her to grow up in the top tier of the African-American community.[1][2] Her grandparents were landowners and second-generation freedmen.[2] Her maternal grandfather was a Civil War veteran.[3][1] She attended public schools in Wilmington.[1] She attended the Industrial School for Colored Youth in Bordentown, New Jersey.[4]
She attended Howard University, graduating with a degree in education in 1915.[1][5] At Howard, she was a member of the choir, the chair of the Howard chapter of the YWCA, and vice president of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.[1][6][2] In 1913, she and 21 other sorority sisters voted to withdraw and from Alpha Kappa Alpha and establish a new sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, that was devoted to community service and social activism.[7][1][8][4] She was the new sorority's vice president.[4]
Cuff marched in the Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913, with Delta Sigma Theta; it was the only black organization in the Washington, D.C. march.[4]
Career
After college, Black taught in Kentucky; Sedalia, Missouri, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[1][9][2] She became the first African-American teacher at Public School 108 (P. S. 108) in Richmond Hills, Queens, New York, teaching there for more than 27 years.[1][10]
Black worked for the United States Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. from 1920 to 1922 and in Trenton, New Jersey from the summer of 1928 to the summer of 1928.[9] She became a faculty member of Delaware State College from 1930 to her retirement in 1957.[1][9]
Honors
Black was honored by Delta Sigma Theta at its 60th National Founders Day ceremony.[9] Although she was too ill to attend the ceremony, it was recorded for her.[9] After her death, the Wilmington, Delaware alumnae chapter established a local Kiwanis library in her honor.[11] In 2013, she was included in a United States Senate resolution that congratulated Delta Sigma Theta for 100 years of service.[12]
In 2023, the eastern end of Foch Boulevard, between 170th Street and Merrick Boulevard, near Roy Wilkins Park, was co-named in her honor.
Personal life
Black lived in Jamaica, New York for forty years.[10] She married real estate agent David Horton Black in 1939.[13][2] He pre-deceased her.[9]
In June 1951, she helped formed the Queens Alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta.[2]
In 1974, she moved into the Franklin Nursing Home in Flushing, New York.[10] In 1977, she died there at the age of 86.[10] Her funeral services were held at St. Albans Congressional Church.[10] She was buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.[10][14]
References
- ↑ 1,00 1,01 1,02 1,03 1,04 1,05 1,06 1,07 1,08 1,09 1,10 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6 2,7 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 4,3 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Giddings, Paula (1988). In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 65. Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Giddings, Paula (1988). In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 48. Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ Giddings, Paula (1988). In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 39. Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ 9,0 9,1 9,2 9,3 9,4 9,5 Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ 10,0 10,1 10,2 10,3 10,4 10,5 Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Giddings, Paula (1988). In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 185. Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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