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Thread #95994 Message #1871844
Posted By: Janie
29-Oct-06 - 10:31 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Enolia McMillan 1st woman president of NAACP
Subject: Obit: Enolia McMillan
I'm surprised no one has started a thread on this yet. (Maybe they did and I am just overlooking it.) Enolia McMillan was the first woman president of the NAACP.
I don't know a whole lot about her, and the NYT obituary is pretty sparce--but how many women, let alone Black women, obtained a Masters degree from Columbia in 1933. She was a powerful force for change in the USA, long before Brown vs BOE.