Helena B. Cobb
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| Born | Helena Maud Brown January 24, 1869 Atlanta University |
Helena B. Cobb (Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.
Early life and career
Helena Maud Brown was born in
After graduating, Brown served as an educator at multiple schools throughout the state. She served as the principal of the public school in
Haines Normal and Industrial Institute in Augusta, Georgia.[2] She later served as principal of Lampson Normal School in Marshallville, Georgia, resigning in May 1903.[2]
On December 19, 1899, while still serving at Haines, she married Andrew Jackson Cobb, a minister within the
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (CME Church).[2] He later died on September 7, 1915.[5] Helena was very active in the relatively new denomination, pushing for greater roles for women in missionary positions. In 1902, she was elected president of the Georgia Conference Mission Society,[4] and in 1906 she became the editor-in-chief of Missionary Age, the official publication for the church's women's missionary movement.[1][4]
In the early 1900s, Cobb founded the Helena B. Cobb Institute in
Tuskegee Institute, the institute provided education to African American girls,[6] and was the only school within the CME Church for women.[4] A 1910s survey of black education in the United States carried out by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Education (a predecessor of the Department of Education) cited the institute as an effective source of supplementary education to African Americans in the area.[1][2]
Death and legacy
Cobb died in Atlanta on December 22, 1922. In 2003, she was inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement.[1]
Notes
References
Bibliography
- Caldwell, A. B., ed. (1917). History of the American Negro and His Institutions (Georgia ed.). A. B. Caldwell Publishing Company. pp. 246–249 – via Google Books.
- "Helena Maud Brown Cobb". Georgia Women of Achievement. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
- Pinn, Anne H.; ISBN 978-1-4514-0383-1 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 978-0-8103-9177-2 – via Google Books.
- Sommerville, Raymond R. Jr. (2004). An Ex-colored Church: Social Activism in the CME Church, 1870-1970. ISBN 978-0-86554-903-6 – via Google Books.