Hortense (Golden) Canady (August 18, 1927 – October 23, 2010) was a civil rights leader, the first African American elected to the Lansing Board of Education.
She served as national president of
Delta Sigma Theta sorority from 1983-1988.
Biography
Canady was born Elizabeth Hortense Golden on August 18, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois.
At age 16, she enrolled in
Fisk University, where she met her husband. The two were married on her 18th birthday, prior to his deployment during World War II.
She continued her education at Fisk and later received a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology.
Later in life, she went back to school and received a master's degree in higher education from
Michigan State University.
Her daughter
Alexa Canady
Dr. Alexa Irene Canady (born November 5, 1950) is a retired American medical doctor specializing in pediatric neurosurgery. She was born in Lansing, Michigan and earned both her bachelors and medical degree from the University of Michigan. Afte ...
was the first
African-American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ensl ...
woman to become a neurosurgeon.
U.S. National Library of Medicine Alexa Canady, MD profile
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1927 births
People from Chicago
Fisk University alumni
Michigan State University alumni
2010 deaths
Delta Sigma Theta members
Educators from Illinois
American women educators
21st-century American women
Delta Sigma Theta presidents