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Assignment for Soc314, Sociology of Gender
Topic 1: Amelia Greenhall Topic 2: Women Writers' Suffrage League Topic 3: Ladies Learning Code Topic 4: Claire ANderson Topic 5: Jean Blackwell HutsonImanisha (talk) 05:35, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
Early life and education
[edit]Jean Blackwell Hutson was born in Sommerfield, Florida. Her father, Paul O. Blackwell was a common merchant and her mother, Sarah Myers Blackwell was an elementary school teacher. [1] Hutson and her mother relocated to Baltimore at age 4 while her father remained in Florida. At a young age, Jean developed a love for reading. In 1831, Jean graduated from Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High school at a tender age of 15 as valedictorian. Attending this school gave her a deep love for black history. [2] She was taught by the daughters of two famous black leaders, W.E.B. Dubois and Kelly Miller. [2] After high school, she enrolled in University of Michigan with the intentions of studying psychiatry.[1] Due to the Great Depression, she had to switch gears and attend Barnard College in New York City. [2] Jean graduated in 1935 with a BA in English being the second black female to graduate. The following year she graduated from Columbia School of Library Service with her MA. [1]
Career
[edit]Jean first began her professional career as a high school librarian in Baltimore from 1936 to 1939 in the New York Public Library. [1] Jean had a huge role in the development of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black History, [3] which was the world's most inclusive collection of material that documented people of African descent history and culture. [4] Jean
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Wedin, Caroline. "Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century". Oxford AASC. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
- ^ a b c Sharon, Howard. "Oxford AASC: Home". www.oxfordaasc.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
- ^ Hildenbrand, Suzanne. "Library Feminism and Library Women's History: Activism and Scholarship, Equity and Culture". www.jstor.org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu. University of Texas Press. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
- ^ "Jean Blackwell Hutson Library Residency Program - About Us - University at Buffalo Libraries". library.buffalo.edu.