Albrier, Frances Mary, 1898-1987
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Identifies LC/NAF RWO
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Birth Date
- 1898-09-21
Death Date
- 1987-08-21
Has Affiliation
- Organization: American Federation of Labor's Women's Auxiliary of the Dining Car Cooks and Waiters
- Organization: Citizens Employment Council
- Organization: East Bay Negro Historical Society
- Organization: Alameda County Democratic Central Committee
Has Affiliation
- Organization: National Council of Negro Women
- Organization: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Organization: Universal Negro Improvement Association
- Organization: Howard University
- Organization: Tuskegee Institute
- Organization: United States Postal Service
Birth Place
- Mount Vernon (Westchester County, N.Y.)
Associated Language
- English
Occupation
(lcsh) Welder
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Sources
- found: Her Frances Mary Albrier, determined advocate for racial equality, c1979:t.p. (Frances Mary Albrier) p. xiv, etc. (b. 1898, Mt. Vernon, N.Y.; d. 8-21-87, Berkeley, Calif.; daughter of Lewis L. Redgrey; m. 1, William Albert Jackson; m. 2, Willie Antoine Albrier)
- found: African American National Biography, accessed October 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Albrier, Frances Mary; civic leader, civil rights activist; born 21 September 1898 in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York, United States; joined Universal Negro Improvement Association as vice president of its women's auxiliary (1920s); president of the American Federation of Labor's Women's Auxiliary of the Dining Car Cooks and Waiters (1930s-1940s); president of the Citizens Employment Council (1940); assisted the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (1930s-1940s); organized the Postal Service Workers Club (1943); elected to the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee (1938-1962); attended Nigerian independence ceremonies as a representative of the National Council of Negro Women (1960); president of the East Bay Negro Historical Society (1968); delegate to the White House Conference on Aging (1971); named to the Herrick Hospital board of trustees (1972); president of the Northern California Caucus on Black Aging (1986); died 21 August 1987 in Berkeley, Alameda County, California, United States)
- found: African American women, 1993:page 2-3 (Frances Albrier, raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, studied at Tuskegee Institute and Howard University, where she was trained as a nurse and social worker. Moved to Berkeley, California in 1920 where she was a nursing instructor. Served as a nurse in the 1930s. During World War II she trained as a welder and after the war worked for the Post Office and organized black workers in the United States Postal Service.)
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- 1990-11-16: new
- 2020-09-27: revised
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