Branch, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1881-1944
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found: NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University for Mary E. Branch collection, 1909-1948(Branch, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth); Afro-American educator; first woman president of Tillotson College; b. 1882; d. 1944)
found: African American National Biography, accessed April 27, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Branch, Mary Elizabeth; educator, college president, NAACP leader/official, educational reform advocate; born 20 May 1881 in Farmville, Virginia, United States; bachelor's degree in Philosophy (1922) and master's degree in English (1925) from University of Chicago; was English teacher and housing director at Virginia State College; taught social studies at Sumner Junior College (1920s); was dean of girls at Vashon High School, St. Louis; was president of American Missionary Association's (AMA) Tillotson College, Austin, Texas (1930-1944) and president of Austin chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1943); member of Texas State's Commission on Interracial Cooperation; served at Texas State's Negro Advisory Board for the National Youth Administration (1935); received honorary doctorate from Virginia State College and Howard University; died 06 July 1944 in Camden, New Jersey, United States)
found: African American women, 1993:pages 58-60 (Mary Elizabeth Branch; graduated from high school at the normal school of Virginia State College in Petersburg. Taught at an elementary school in Blackstone, Va. before beginning a twenty-year tenure at Virginia State College where she became director. Took classes at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and the University of Chicago. Taught social studies at Sumner Junior College in Kansas City, Mo. in 1925, then became dean at the St. Louis Vashon High School.)
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