Ethel Cuff Black on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Ethel Cuff Black (October 17, 1890 – September 17, 1977) was one of the founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated at Howard University, and its first vice president. She was the first African-American teacher in Rochester, New York.
At Howard University, she was chairwoman of the collegiate chapter of the YWCA. During college, she formed Delta Sigma Theta with twenty-one other women.
She was elected the sorority's first vice president. Due to illness, she graduated from Howard in 1915.
She was also the first African-American teacher in Rochester, New York, Rochester, New York (state), New York.Founders Biography. Kappa Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta at the University of Oklahoma
. Accessed on August 15, 2007. She was married in 1939 to real estate agent David Horton Black.Giddings ''op. ed.'' pp. 185.
Delta Sigma Theta Founder History at the University of Texas"Black Greek-letter organizations in the twenty-first century", Parks, Gregory, 2008
1890 births 1977 deaths African-American schoolteachers Bordentown School alumni Schoolteachers from Delaware American women educators Delta Sigma Theta founders Howard University alumni People from Wilmington, Delaware 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century American people African-American suffragists People from Rochester, New York Schoolteachers from New York (state) {{US-edu-bio-stub
Biography
Ethel L. Cuff was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Her father, Richard Cuff, was a Tanning (leather), tanner in an African-American owned business. Her maternal grandfather was a American Civil War, Civil War veteran. In Bordentown, New Jersey, she attended the Bordentown School, Industrial School for Colored Youth and graduated with the highest grade point average.
At Howard University, she was chairwoman of the collegiate chapter of the YWCA. During college, she formed Delta Sigma Theta with twenty-one other women.
She was elected the sorority's first vice president. Due to illness, she graduated from Howard in 1915.
She was also the first African-American teacher in Rochester, New York, Rochester, New York (state), New York.Founders Biography. Kappa Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta at the University of Oklahoma. Accessed on August 15, 2007. She was married in 1939 to real estate agent David Horton Black.Giddings ''op. ed.'' pp. 185.
References
External links
1890 births 1977 deaths African-American schoolteachers Bordentown School alumni Schoolteachers from Delaware American women educators Delta Sigma Theta founders Howard University alumni People from Wilmington, Delaware 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century American people African-American suffragists People from Rochester, New York Schoolteachers from New York (state) {{US-edu-bio-stub