, and in Tuskegee she led monthly discussions on the women’s suffrage movement and amassed a large library of reading materials about suffrage. Clockwise from top left: Roberto Gonzales, Peggy Koenig, Michelle Rodriguez, Julio Reyes Copello, Sergio TrujilloImage collage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine. Don't have a Harvard Magazine account? Donor In 1895 Adella became a founding member of Tuskegee Women’s Club (TWC), which was formed by female faculty and the wives of male faculty at Tuskegee. Sociologist Roberto Gonzales’s research is becoming a musical. Her two most well-known articles were “Women Suffrage,” which was first published in The Colored American Magazine in 1905; and “Colored Women as Voters,” which Adella wrote in September 1912 as part of a group of essays titled “A Woman’s Suffrage Symposium” for Crisis Magazine. Your Bill Keenan ’09 brings his first book onto the screen. She graduated at 18 from Atlanta University, where dedicated New Englanders taught a small cadre of black Southerners, and 20 years later she earned a master’s there—“honorary” only, though, because no school for African Americans anywhere in the country then was accredited to bestow “earned” graduate degrees. and L.H.A. William C. Kirby: Is China Ready for Leadership on the Global Stage? Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, led by Emily Broad Leib, Clockwise from top left: Laurence Ralph, Monica Bell, and Brandon Terry, All Content ©1996-2020 Harvard Magazine Inc.All right reserved Her family memoir Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South (Yale), appears this month. History The letter and Hunt Logan herself were virtually unique, because in her own eyes, and as specified by law, she was “a Negro.” Due to her predominantly Caucasian ancestry, however (both her mother and her black-Cherokee-white maternal grandmother maintained longstanding, consensual relationships with slaveholding white men), Hunt Logan herself looked white.

African-American suffragist promotes suffrage as a way of upholding citizenship rights and to protect herself, and her family, from violence. At the time, she was the N-AWSA’s only African-American lifetime member, and the only such member from ultraconservative Alabama, where she lived with her husband, Warren Logan, and their children, and taught for three decades at Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute, the agricultural and industrial school for black Southerners that drew such prominent visitors as Frederick Douglass, Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, and philanthropists Andrew Carnegie and Julius Rosenwald. In October 2018, supporters of Students for Fair Admissions hold signs in front of the federal courthouse where the admissions trial took place. Her family memoir Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South (Yale), appears this month. A white friend and fellow suffragist suggested that Hunt Logan speak at a Washington, D.C., convention honoring Anthony’s eightieth birthday, noting, “her hair is as straight as yours or mine and she looks white but must call herself colored.” But Anthony demurred: “I cannot have speak for us a woman who has even a ten-thousandth portion of African blood who would be an inferior orator in matter or manner, because it would so mitigate against our cause…Let your Miss Logan wait till she is more cultivated, better educated, and better prepared and can do our mission and her own race the greatest credit.”, Despite that affront, Hunt Logan cajoled white suffragists, Anthony among them, into visiting Tuskegee, and contributed to the N-AWSA’s Woman’s Journal, where in 1901 (using the pseudonym “L.H.A.”) she wrote about “Mrs. Services, Your

Just before Washington’s December memorial service, she jumped to her death from the fifth floor of a campus building before hundreds of appalled onlookers—as perhaps she’d prophesied in her 1905 suffrage article. Related content in Oxford Reference. If a home that has a fatherNeeds a mother too,Then every state has men votersNeeds its women too. Five years after her death, on August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. She did not get the chance to see her daughters vote, as she often times expressed great hope and interest in seeing.

1863; d. 12 December 1915), educator. Adella Hunt Logan was born free in Sparta, Georgia in 1863 to Maria Hunt, a black and Creek Native American, and a white planter. The Blaschka model is listed in the 1878 mail-order catalog of, Photograph by Peter Fried/Sketchfab.com/ARC-3D, Portrait from Adele Logan Alexander’s personal collection, Hunt Logan in June 1901, after earning her “honorary” master’s degree from Atlanta University, Collection of the author;  reproduction photograph by Mark Gulezian, Adella Hunt in her wedding dress, December 1888, Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South, Harvard Endowment Valued at $41.9 Billion, Up 2.4 Percent, A Major Disparity in Massachusetts Criminal Justice, Harvard Great Performances: Terence Patterson ’00, Harvard Football Great Performances: Barry Wood ’32, “Hands On” with Fragile Glass Sea Creatures. Harvard Forward divestment advocates win three Board of Overseers seats—and other results from alumni voting. Class Notes or Obituaries, please log in using your Harvard Adella Hunt Logan (1863—1915) Quick Reference (b. She wrote for other publications as well, including a notable 1905 article about woman suffrage in the Colored American, the country’s most widely read journal by, for, and about African Americans. African Americans could now cast their ballots in towns and cities where they had once been denied this right. Public Domain. Regional and National History, View all related items in Oxford Reference », Search for: 'Adella Hunt Logan' in Oxford Reference ». “If we are citizens,” she asked, “why not treat us as such on questions of law and governance where women are now classed with minors and idiots?” To those who argued that men represented their wives at the polls, she argued that many of her sex either had no spouses or had “callous husbands who patronize gambling dens and brothels.” Such women, she concluded, often stayed home, “to cry, to swear, or to suicide.”. Under the moniker A.H.L. Photo collage by Harvard Magazine/JC, October 19, 1929: Barry Wood Beats Army, 20-20, A 10-centimeter-wide glass model of Phymactis pustulata, found in intertidal zones in the Western South Atlantic. Photograph by Theresa Kelliher/Courtesy of the Royall House and Slave Quarters museum, Preserving black history as “an act of liberation”, Readers’ views on immigration, the pandemic, the Electoral College, and more. — Adella’s dream of the United States having a “government of the people, for the people, and by the people - even including the colored people” - was finally a reality. She earned her degree from the prestigious Atlanta University and later became a teacher at Tuskegee Institute. Exploring the coastal wonders of Essex, Massachusetts, Suggestions for boosting emotional, mental, and physical wellness this fall. White people make up 74.3 percent of the state’s population and are defendants in in 58.7 percent of cases.

In 1888 Adella married Warren Logan, Tuskegee Institute’s treasurer and a close friend of Booker T. Washington. Register Here. Warren Logan’s” recent public presentation on suffrage for black women. To access She attended Atlanta University in 1879 and received a master’s degree from there in 1905. Historian Adele Logan Alexander ’59 is Adella Hunt Logan’s only granddaughter. For the march she wrote a poem set to the tune of “Coming Through The Rye” entitled, “Just As Well As He”.

The case reached the Supreme Court and served as a precedent for other cases that sought to challenge political and electoral systems that diluted voting and deprived citizens of their right to elect a candidate. Harvard Law School researchers identify the mechanisms that lead to longer sentences for nonwhite defendants. “If white American women,” she wrote in. All Rights Reserved.

PRINTED FROM OXFORD REFERENCE (www.oxfordreference.com). Photograph courtesy of Essex River Cruises Inc. Harvard Magazine? Photo collage by, October 19, 1929: Barry Wood Beats Army, 20-, , found in intertidal zones in the Western South Atlantic. On December 12,1915 Adella Hunt Logan passed away in Tuskegee, Alabama at the age of 52. Fifty years after Adella’s passing and forty-five years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In 1912, in “Colored Women as Voters,” written for W.E.B. At the top of many African American suffragists lists was police violence and sexual exploitation. Du Bois’s popular new NAACP magazine, The Crisis, she argued in part, “More and more colored women are participating in civic activities, and women who believe that they need the vote, also see that the vote needs them.” But by then, she was already physically ill—from long-term, painful, and debilitating kidney infections—and increasingly depressed, a condition due partly to marital and family stress, but aggravated by outside events. Adella Hunt Logan.

In 1895 the National Federation of Afro-American Women would unite with the League to become the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC). She would later become Tuskegee Institute’s first librarian. The daughter of a free woman of color and a white plantation owner, Logan was born free in 1863 in the midst of the Civil War.

Historian Adele Logan Alexander ’59 is Adella Hunt Logan’s only granddaughter. According to the data set assembled by Harvard Law School scholars, black and Latinx people are overrepresented in Massachusetts’ criminal caseload compared to their population in the state. The Blaschka model is listed in the 1878 mail-order catalog of Ward’s Natural Science Establishment. Screenshot captured by Trisha Prabhu ’22.

Like many African American suffragists of her time, Adella supported universal suffrage and firmly believed that gaining the right to vote would help end the racist, discriminatory, and violent practices that were often inflicted on African Americans. Attendees of the Cross-Cultrual Voting Kickoff smile as Trisha Prabhu ’22 takes a screenshot. David L. Evans made a difference for 50 years. Photograph courtesy of Matteo Wong, Our coverage of the freshman experience at Harvard.

(b. Top, from left: Raphael William Bostic, and Margaret (Midge) Purce; bottom, from left: Tracy K. Smith, Thea Sebastian, and Jayson Toweh, Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications. She’d first been tutored by a white cousin, a schoolteacher. Adele Logan Alexander is a historian and author of “Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South ,” about her grandmother Adella Hunt Logan.

Magazine account and verify your alumni status. Brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915. A Radcliffe exhibition explores a lifetime of artwork and female friendship, Our coverage of Harvard’s libraries, more relevant than ever in an online world. TWC held bi-weekly mothers’ meetings and worked on social issues such as temperance, prison reform, and women’s suffrage. African American suffragist, teacher, and author, Adella Hunt Logan was born free in Sparta, Georgia in 1863 to Maria Hunt, a black and Creek Native American, and a white planter.