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Brenda Ray Moryck was born in [[Newark, New Jersey]] in 1892,<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1980 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCRC-YVV |website=FamilySearch}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Williams|first=Noelle Lorraine|date=2020-09-14|title=The Incredible Legacy of Newark's Black Women Activists|url=https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/09/14/black-women-activists-artists-leadership-newark-new-jersey-archival-records/ideas/essay/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Zócalo Public Square|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922051400/https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/09/14/black-women-activists-artists-leadership-newark-new-jersey-archival-records/ideas/essay/ |archive-date=2020-09-22 }}</ref> the daughter of John W. Moryck and Sarah Rose Ray Moryck. Her father owned a saloon and her mother was an educator and clubwoman.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Ashby |first=William M. (William Mobile) |url=http://archive.org/details/NwkAshby001 |title=Reflections on the Life of Negroes in Newark |date=1972-02-16}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=1942-01-24|title=Mrs. John W. Moryck Dies Here in 80th Year; Of Old Family|pages=4|work=The New York Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75432/rose-moryck-obit/|access-date=2021-03-01|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|date=June 1926|title=Our Prize Winners and What they Say of Themselves|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wf0qAAAAMAAJ&q=Brenda+Moryck&pg=PA189|journal=Opportunity|volume=4|pages=189}}</ref> Though Brenda wrote that her great-grandfather was [[Charles Bennett Ray|Charles Bennet Ray]] |
Brenda Ray Moryck was born in [[Newark, New Jersey]] in 1892,<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1980 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCRC-YVV |website=FamilySearch}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Williams|first=Noelle Lorraine|date=2020-09-14|title=The Incredible Legacy of Newark's Black Women Activists|url=https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/09/14/black-women-activists-artists-leadership-newark-new-jersey-archival-records/ideas/essay/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Zócalo Public Square|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922051400/https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/09/14/black-women-activists-artists-leadership-newark-new-jersey-archival-records/ideas/essay/ |archive-date=2020-09-22 }}</ref> the daughter of John W. Moryck and Sarah Rose Ray Moryck. Her father owned a saloon and her mother was an educator and clubwoman.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Ashby |first=William M. (William Mobile) |url=http://archive.org/details/NwkAshby001 |title=Reflections on the Life of Negroes in Newark |date=1972-02-16}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=1942-01-24|title=Mrs. John W. Moryck Dies Here in 80th Year; Of Old Family|pages=4|work=The New York Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75432/rose-moryck-obit/|access-date=2021-03-01|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|date=June 1926|title=Our Prize Winners and What they Say of Themselves|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wf0qAAAAMAAJ&q=Brenda+Moryck&pg=PA189|journal=Opportunity|volume=4|pages=189}}</ref> Though Brenda wrote that her great-grandfather was [[Charles Bennett Ray|Charles Bennet Ray]], her mother's death record gives Adam Ray and Sarah Closson as Brenda's maternal grandparents.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |title="New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", database, FamilySearch |website=[[FamilySearch]] |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WRP-VHN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=D-M-1942-0001580 |url=https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/7052712 |website=Historical Vital Records The New York City Municipal Archives}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last1=Roses |first1=Lorraine Elena |url=http://archive.org/details/harlemrenaissanc00rose |title=Harlem : renaissance and beyond : literary biographies of 100 black women writers, 1900-1945 |last2=Randolph |first2=Ruth Elizabeth |date=1990 |location=Boston, Mass. |publisher= G.K. Hall |isbn=978-0-8161-8926-7}}</ref> Multiple records for Adam Ray state that his father was Adam Ray Sr., not Charles Ray.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adam Ray Jr. |url=https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/4117360 |website=New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28S-1SX3 |website=FamilySearch}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZR3-ZWL |website=FamilySearch}}</ref> |
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William Ashby wrote, "John Moryck [had] a saloon on Academy Street. He lived on Kearney Street. Moryck had an unusual daughter, Brenda. She graduated from Barringer High School, and won a scholarship at Wellsley College, certainly the first Negro girl from Newark to attend a prestigious white school."<ref name=":5" /> |
William Ashby wrote, "John Moryck [had] a saloon on Academy Street. He lived on Kearney Street. Moryck had an unusual daughter, Brenda. She graduated from Barringer High School, and won a scholarship at Wellsley College, certainly the first Negro girl from Newark to attend a prestigious white school."<ref name=":5" /> |
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Moryck completed a bachelor's degree from [[Wellesley College]] in 1916, the only black graduate in her class.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=July 1916|title=Our Graduates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyoG2wFb_LwC&q=Brenda+Moryck&pg=PA121|journal=The Crisis|pages=121}}</ref> She earned a master's degree in English literature from [[Howard University]] in 1926.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=February 28, 2020|title=Wellesley Celebrates the Legacy of Some of Its Earliest Black Students During Black History Month|url=http://www.wellesley.edu/news/2020/stories/node/173916|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Wellesley College|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926083650/https://www.wellesley.edu/news/2020/stories/node/173916 |archive-date=2020-09-26 }}</ref> |
Moryck completed a bachelor's degree from [[Wellesley College]] in 1916, the only black graduate in her class.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=July 1916|title=Our Graduates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyoG2wFb_LwC&q=Brenda+Moryck&pg=PA121|journal=The Crisis|pages=121}}</ref> She earned a master's degree in English literature from [[Howard University]] in 1926.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=February 28, 2020|title=Wellesley Celebrates the Legacy of Some of Its Earliest Black Students During Black History Month|url=http://www.wellesley.edu/news/2020/stories/node/173916|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Wellesley College|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926083650/https://www.wellesley.edu/news/2020/stories/node/173916 |archive-date=2020-09-26 }}</ref> Moryck was a member of [[Alpha Kappa Alpha]] sorority and was active in the Tau Omega chapter. |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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Moryck worked for the Newark Bureau of Charities after college, and taught physical culture at a technical school in [[Bordentown, New Jersey|Bordentown]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=1917-06-07|title=Bordentown Industrial|pages=7|work=The New York Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72415243/bordentown-industrial/|access-date=2021-03-01|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1917-06-01|title=12 Graduate from Industrial School|pages=7|work=Trenton Evening Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72435316/12-graduate-from-industrial-school/|access-date=2021-03-02|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She taught English and drama at [[Friendship Armstrong Academy|Armstrong Manual Training School]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] during the 1920s.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1927-03-15|title=School Orators Reach Semi-Finals|pages=45|work=Evening Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72415424/school-orators-reach-semi-finals/|access-date=2021-03-01|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She wrote essays and stories published in ''[[The Crisis]]'', ''[[Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life|Opportunity]]'', and other national periodicals and newspapers.<ref>{{Cite book |
Moryck worked for the Newark Bureau of Charities after college, and taught physical culture at a technical school in [[Bordentown, New Jersey|Bordentown]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=1917-06-07|title=Bordentown Industrial|pages=7|work=The New York Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72415243/bordentown-industrial/|access-date=2021-03-01|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1917-06-01|title=12 Graduate from Industrial School|pages=7|work=Trenton Evening Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72435316/12-graduate-from-industrial-school/|access-date=2021-03-02|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She taught English and drama at [[Friendship Armstrong Academy|Armstrong Manual Training School]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] during the 1920s.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1927-03-15|title=School Orators Reach Semi-Finals|pages=45|work=Evening Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72415424/school-orators-reach-semi-finals/|access-date=2021-03-01|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She wrote essays and stories published in ''[[The Crisis]]'', ''[[Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life|Opportunity]]'', and other national periodicals and newspapers.<ref>{{Cite book|title="Girl, colored" and other stories : a complete short fiction anthology of African American women writers in the Crisis magazine, 1910-2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Co|editor=Judith Musser|isbn=978-0-7864-4606-3|location=Jefferson, N.C.|oclc=630498177}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Opportunity reader : stories, poetry, and essays from the Urban League's Opportunity magazine|date=1999|publisher=Modern Library|editor=Sondra K. Wilson, National Urban League|isbn=0-375-75379-6|location=New York|oclc=41889049}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Austin|first=Addell P.|date=1988|title=The "Opportunity" and "Crisis" Literary Contests, 1924-27|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44322018|journal=CLA Journal|volume=32|issue=2|pages=235–246|jstor=44322018|issn=0007-8549}}</ref> She was also a drama critic for the ''New York Age'',<ref>{{Cite news|date=1931-05-02|title=Harlem Experimental Theatre Gives 3 Plays|pages=6|work=The New York Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72433702/harlem-experimental-theatre-gives-3/|access-date=2021-03-02|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and wrote at least one play, ''The Christmas Spirit'', performed at Armstrong high school in 1927. She was active in the [[National Urban League]], the Harlem [[YWCA]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=1929-03-16|title=Rabbi Lyons to Speak at Brooklyn Y.W.C.A.|pages=2|work=The New York Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72415017/rabbi-lyons-to-speak-at-brooklyn/|access-date=2021-03-01|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and the [[NAACP]] in New York.<ref name=":1" /> She was also an avid golfer.<ref>{{Cite book|last=McDaniel|first=Pete|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KmBAAAAMAAJ&q=Brenda+Moryck|title=Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf|date=2000|publisher=American Golfer|isbn=978-1-888531-36-7|pages=50|language=en}}</ref> |
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Moryck's writings are associated with the Harlem Renaissance<ref>{{Cite book |
Moryck's writings are associated with the Harlem Renaissance<ref>{{Cite book|title=Black women of the Harlem Renaissance era|date=2014|others=Lean'tin L. Bracks, Jessie Carney Smith|isbn=978-0-8108-8543-1|location=Lanham|oclc=894554745}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Caughie|first=Pamela L.|date=September 2012|title="The best people": The Making of the Black Bourgeoisie in Writings of the Negro Renaissance|journal=Modernism/Modernity|volume=20|issue=3|pages=519–537|doi=10.1353/mod.2013.0064|s2cid=144761198 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/525170 }}</ref> and have been included in several recent anthologies, among them ''The new Negro: Readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938'' (2007), edited by [[Henry Louis Gates Jr.]] and [[Gene Andrew Jarrett|Gene Andrew Garrett]],<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Gates|first1=Henry Louis|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/enwiki/api/volumes/oclc/77476415.html|title=The new Negro: readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938|last2=Jarrett|first2=Gene Andrew|date=2007|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, N.J.|language=English|oclc=608490813}}</ref> ''Double-take: A revisionist Harlem Renaissance anthology'' (2001), edited by Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey, ''Harlem's Glory: Black women writing, 1900-1950'' (1996), edited by Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph,<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Roses|first1=Lorraine Elena|url=http://archive.org/details/isbn_9780674372696|title=Harlem's glory : Black women writing, 1900-1950|last2=Randolph|first2=Ruth Elizabeth|date=1996|location=Cambridge, Mass. |publisher= Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37269-6}}</ref> and ''Speech & power: The African-American essay and its cultural content, from polemics to pulpit'' (1992). edited by [[Gerald Early]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/speechpowerafric0000unse|title=Speech & power : the African-American essay and its cultural content, from polemics to pulpit|date=1992|location=Hopewell, NJ |publisher= Ecco Press|isbn=978-0-88001-264-5}}</ref> She had an unpublished novel in manuscript at the time of her death. |
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== Personal life == |
== Personal life == |
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![]() Brenda Ray Moryck, from the 1916 Wellesley College yearbook | |
Born | Newark, New Jersey, US | June 13, 1892
Died | [1] Stockbridge, Massachusetts | December 6, 1945
Other names | Brenda Moryck Francke (after 1930) |
Occupation(s) | Writer, teacher |
Brenda (Estelle) Ray Moryck (1892-1945) was an American writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Early life and education
[edit]Brenda Ray Moryck was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1892,[2][3] the daughter of John W. Moryck and Sarah Rose Ray Moryck. Her father owned a saloon and her mother was an educator and clubwoman.[4][5][6] Though Brenda wrote that her great-grandfather was Charles Bennet Ray, her mother's death record gives Adam Ray and Sarah Closson as Brenda's maternal grandparents.[6][7][8][9] Multiple records for Adam Ray state that his father was Adam Ray Sr., not Charles Ray.[10][11][12]
William Ashby wrote, "John Moryck [had] a saloon on Academy Street. He lived on Kearney Street. Moryck had an unusual daughter, Brenda. She graduated from Barringer High School, and won a scholarship at Wellsley College, certainly the first Negro girl from Newark to attend a prestigious white school."[4]
Moryck completed a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1916, the only black graduate in her class.[13] She earned a master's degree in English literature from Howard University in 1926.[14] Moryck was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and was active in the Tau Omega chapter.
Career
[edit]Moryck worked for the Newark Bureau of Charities after college, and taught physical culture at a technical school in Bordentown.[15][16] She taught English and drama at Armstrong Manual Training School in Washington, D.C. during the 1920s.[17] She wrote essays and stories published in The Crisis, Opportunity, and other national periodicals and newspapers.[18][19][20] She was also a drama critic for the New York Age,[21] and wrote at least one play, The Christmas Spirit, performed at Armstrong high school in 1927. She was active in the National Urban League, the Harlem YWCA,[22] and the NAACP in New York.[14] She was also an avid golfer.[23]
Moryck's writings are associated with the Harlem Renaissance[24][25] and have been included in several recent anthologies, among them The new Negro: Readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938 (2007), edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Gene Andrew Garrett,[26] Double-take: A revisionist Harlem Renaissance anthology (2001), edited by Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey, Harlem's Glory: Black women writing, 1900-1950 (1996), edited by Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph,[27] and Speech & power: The African-American essay and its cultural content, from polemics to pulpit (1992). edited by Gerald Early.[28] She had an unpublished novel in manuscript at the time of her death.
Personal life
[edit]Moryck married twice. Her first husband was Lucius Lee Jordan; they married in 1917 and he died before their first anniversary.[9] She married Robert Beale Francke in 1930. She had a daughter, Elizabeth (Betty) Osborne Francke,[5][29] and a foster daughter, Julia Wormley.[30][31] She died in 1945, in Massachusetts.[3][32][33][34] She had been scheduled to meet up with her daughter who was in boarding school in Albany, New York.[32]
References
[edit]- ^ "Mrs. John W Moryck Dies Here In 80th Year; Of Old Family". New York Age. Jan 24, 1942.
- ^ "New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1980". FamilySearch.
- ^ a b Williams, Noelle Lorraine (2020-09-14). "The Incredible Legacy of Newark's Black Women Activists". Zócalo Public Square. Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
- ^ a b Ashby, William M. (William Mobile) (1972-02-16). Reflections on the Life of Negroes in Newark.
- ^ a b "Mrs. John W. Moryck Dies Here in 80th Year; Of Old Family". The New York Age. 1942-01-24. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Our Prize Winners and What they Say of Themselves". Opportunity. 4: 189. June 1926.
- ^ ""New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", database, FamilySearch". FamilySearch.
- ^ "D-M-1942-0001580". Historical Vital Records The New York City Municipal Archives.
- ^ a b Roses, Lorraine Elena; Randolph, Ruth Elizabeth (1990). Harlem : renaissance and beyond : literary biographies of 100 black women writers, 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8926-7.
- ^ "Adam Ray Jr". New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949.
- ^ "New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980". FamilySearch.
- ^ "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985". FamilySearch.
- ^ "Our Graduates". The Crisis: 121. July 1916.
- ^ a b "Wellesley Celebrates the Legacy of Some of Its Earliest Black Students During Black History Month". Wellesley College. February 28, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
- ^ "Bordentown Industrial". The New York Age. 1917-06-07. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "12 Graduate from Industrial School". Trenton Evening Times. 1917-06-01. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-03-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "School Orators Reach Semi-Finals". Evening Star. 1927-03-15. p. 45. Retrieved 2021-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Judith Musser, ed. (2011). "Girl, colored" and other stories : a complete short fiction anthology of African American women writers in the Crisis magazine, 1910-2010. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-4606-3. OCLC 630498177.
- ^ Sondra K. Wilson, National Urban League, ed. (1999). Opportunity reader : stories, poetry, and essays from the Urban League's Opportunity magazine. New York: Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75379-6. OCLC 41889049.
- ^ Austin, Addell P. (1988). "The "Opportunity" and "Crisis" Literary Contests, 1924-27". CLA Journal. 32 (2): 235–246. ISSN 0007-8549. JSTOR 44322018.
- ^ "Harlem Experimental Theatre Gives 3 Plays". The New York Age. 1931-05-02. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-03-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Rabbi Lyons to Speak at Brooklyn Y.W.C.A." The New York Age. 1929-03-16. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ McDaniel, Pete (2000). Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf. American Golfer. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-888531-36-7.
- ^ Black women of the Harlem Renaissance era. Lean'tin L. Bracks, Jessie Carney Smith. Lanham. 2014. ISBN 978-0-8108-8543-1. OCLC 894554745.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Caughie, Pamela L. (September 2012). ""The best people": The Making of the Black Bourgeoisie in Writings of the Negro Renaissance". Modernism/Modernity. 20 (3): 519–537. doi:10.1353/mod.2013.0064. S2CID 144761198.
- ^ Gates, Henry Louis; Jarrett, Gene Andrew (2007). The new Negro: readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. OCLC 608490813.
- ^ Roses, Lorraine Elena; Randolph, Ruth Elizabeth (1996). Harlem's glory : Black women writing, 1900-1950. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-37269-6.
- ^ Speech & power : the African-American essay and its cultural content, from polemics to pulpit. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-88001-264-5.
- ^ Letter from Brenda Moryck Francke to W. E. B. Du Bois, October 14, 1941, W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- ^ "C. C. S. Girls Meet in Staten Island". The New York Age. 1930-04-12. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-03-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "United States Census, 1930". FamilySearch.
- ^ a b "Summer Resident of Stockbridge Dies in Hospital". The Berkshire County Eagle. 1945-12-12. p. 24. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ^ "Records of Evergreen Cemetery (by email correspondence to Noelle Lorraine Williams)". Evergreen Cemetery | Hillside, New Jersey 07205. 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ^ "Brenda M. Francke Noted School Teacher Dies From Pneumonia". New York Age. December 15, 1945. p. 4.
External links
[edit]- "Johnsons, John B. Nail, John E. Nail, Grayce Fairfax Nail, Brenda Moryck, Bertha Randolph, Clara Wood, Great Barrington, Massachusetts", a photograph of Moryck and others taken in 1928, from the James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson papers, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
- 1894 births
- 1949 deaths
- 20th-century American writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century African-American women writers
- 20th-century African-American educators
- 20th-century American educators
- 20th-century American women educators
- African-American women educators
- Wellesley College alumni
- Writers from Newark, New Jersey
- 20th-century African-American writers