Jane Edna Hunter — social reformer and lawyer
- Creator(s):
- Phillis Wheatley Association
- Title:
- Annual Report for the Year 1923
- Publication/Origin:
- Cleveland: 1923
- Description:
- Jane Edna Hunter founded the Working Girls Association in 1911, changing the name to the Phillis Wheatley Association in 1912. Her motivations were similar to Victoria Matthews’, as she sought to provide support and vocational training for single African American women migrating to Cleveland from the South. Her own negative experience as a black woman moving from South Carolina and attempting to find a safe place to set up residence and work as a nurse inspired her to open the Association. Hunter graduated from Cleveland Law School in 1925 and continued to serve as the Association’s Executive Director until 1947.
- Citation:
- Phillis Wheatley Association, Annual Report for the Year 1923, Cleveland: 1923, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed April 23, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/4275