Helen W. Anderson
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Helen W. Anderson | |
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Tenleytown, Washington, D.C. | |
Died | January 1, 1962 | (aged 84)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Delaware |
Known for | Activism |
Relatives | Mary Ann Shadd (cousin) |
Helen Wormley Anderson (1877–1962) was an African-American suffragist.
Early life
On February 17 1877, Anderson was born to Adelaide Shadd Wormley, and William H. A. Wormley; a housewife and hotelier, respectively.
Helen grew up in
In 1890, when Helen was thirteen years old, her mother died. Her father remarried in 1892, but the change in the family dynamics did not alter Helen's educational trajectory. Like her Wormley and Shadd relations, whose ranks included physicians, school teachers, and principals (her nephew Stanton Wormley later became president of Howard University), she benefited from an excellent education in the District's "colored" schools. She attended the famed "Colored High School" in Washington, D.C., at a time when the writer and feminist Anna J. Cooper was on the teaching staff.[1]
After graduation, she accepted a teaching post at the Howard School in Wilmington, Delaware. She later advanced her schooling through summer courses at Harvard and New York University.
Career
Her involvement in the woman suffrage movement occurred in conjunction with colleagues and political activists. Not long after beginning her career at the Howard School, Helen W. Anderson joined
From 1957-1958, Anderson was the Second Counselor of the Relief Society.[2]
Death
Upon her death in 1962, she bequeathed her entire estate to her sisters Jessie A. Wormley and Miriam Wormley Lewis. Her remains were buried in the Trustees Section of the National Harmony Memorial Park in Maryland, the final resting place of many family members, including her mother's cousin Mary Ann Shadd Cary.
See also
- Edwina Kruse
- Blanche Stubbs
Notes
- ^ a b "Biographical Sketch of Helen W. Anderson (Webb), 1877-1962 | Alexander Street, part of Clarivate". search.alexanderstreet.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Appendix 1 : Biographical Register of General Church Officers". contentdm.lib.byu.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-03.