Mrs. Josephine Turpin Washington ::;
(July 31, 1861 – March 17, 1949) She was a very time noted Negroe-American writer and teacher.
Turpin was first educated at home and later at public schools in Goochland County, Virginia. After all her family relocated to Richmond, Virginia she attended the Richmond Institute, later known as the Richmond Theological Seminary.
She was among the lucky 1886 graduating class at Howard University where during summer breaks she clerked for Frederick Douglass, then recorder of deeds for the Washington, District of Columbia.
After her graduation she taught mathematics at Howard University until her marriage in 1888 to Dr. Samuel Somerville Hawkins Washington, M.D. brought her to Birmingham, Alabama.
Over her career Mrs. Washington would serve on the faculties of Selma University, Tuskegee Institute, her husband held the position of school physician, Alabama State University and Wilberforce University. She retired in 1934 after twenty years as dean of women at Wilberforce University.
Mrs. Washington's first article accepted for print, "A Talk about Church Fairs," appeared in the Virginia Star while she was still in her teens. In the piece she questioned the sale of wine at church fundraising events. Washington wrote essays such as "Higher Education for Women," that appeared in the People's Advocate, and the introductions to Women of Distinction (1893) by Lawson A. Scruggs and Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (1926) by Hallie Quinn Brown. She covered the gauntlet of issues concerning Americans of Color, including employment and educational opportunities, the raising of children,the challenges that threatens the bond between women and men. Washington defended the "progressive woman" who yearned for both a successful professional career with a domestic life. As chair of the Executive Board of the Alabama State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Washington penned their Federation Hymn, Mother Alabama. She submitted numerous articles over her life for print in such publications as the Christian Recorder, the New York Freeman,, the A. M. E. Review, The Colored American Magazine, and the New York Globe.
Writing in 1904 for the Colored American Magazine on the sixth annual meeting of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, held in Mobile, Alabama, Washington reported not only on the delegate's focus on black womanhood, standards of morality, and the setting up of a youth reformatory but also on the pervasive effects of segregation and racial prejudice within the city itself. With an eye to discrimination on all levels of society, Washington noted, for instance, the playgrounds that were set aside for the exclusive use of white children, while black children "look on longingly, but dare not touch the sacred structure." Facts on File History Database Center'
She was a long-time educator and a frequent contributor of articles to magazines and newspapers typically concerning some aspects in America. Washington was a great-granddaughter of Mary Jefferson Turpin, a paternal great aunt of President Thomas Jefferson.
Josephine Turpin was born in Goochland County, Virginia on July 31, 1861, daughter of Augustus A. Turpin and Maria V. Crump.
Her father Augustus A. Turpin was a son of a former slave named Mary and Edwin Durock Turpin (1783–1868), a grandson of Mary Jefferson Turpin and a great-grandfather of Odette Harper Hines.
In her 1995 book, All is Never Said: The Narrative of Odette Harper Hines (written with Judith Rollins), Hines reveals that Mr. Turpin fell in love with Mary not long after she arrived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana aboard a slave ship and became his property. Sometime later he took the very unusual step for the day, he married her.
According to Hines, her great-grandfather took care that their children received an education and also broke with common practice in allowing his slaves to learn basic reading, writing and arithmetic.
Mrs. Josephine Turpin Washington Washington died at the age of eighty-seven at her daughter's home in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Bio;
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Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Historian
(July 31, 1861 – March 17, 1949) She was a very time noted Negroe-American writer and teacher.
Turpin was first educated at home and later at public schools in Goochland County, Virginia. After all her family relocated to Richmond, Virginia she attended the Richmond Institute, later known as the Richmond Theological Seminary.
She was among the lucky 1886 graduating class at Howard University where during summer breaks she clerked for Frederick Douglass, then recorder of deeds for the Washington, District of Columbia.
After her graduation she taught mathematics at Howard University until her marriage in 1888 to Dr. Samuel Somerville Hawkins Washington, M.D. brought her to Birmingham, Alabama.
Over her career Mrs. Washington would serve on the faculties of Selma University, Tuskegee Institute, her husband held the position of school physician, Alabama State University and Wilberforce University. She retired in 1934 after twenty years as dean of women at Wilberforce University.
Mrs. Washington's first article accepted for print, "A Talk about Church Fairs," appeared in the Virginia Star while she was still in her teens. In the piece she questioned the sale of wine at church fundraising events. Washington wrote essays such as "Higher Education for Women," that appeared in the People's Advocate, and the introductions to Women of Distinction (1893) by Lawson A. Scruggs and Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (1926) by Hallie Quinn Brown. She covered the gauntlet of issues concerning Americans of Color, including employment and educational opportunities, the raising of children,the challenges that threatens the bond between women and men. Washington defended the "progressive woman" who yearned for both a successful professional career with a domestic life. As chair of the Executive Board of the Alabama State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Washington penned their Federation Hymn, Mother Alabama. She submitted numerous articles over her life for print in such publications as the Christian Recorder, the New York Freeman,, the A. M. E. Review, The Colored American Magazine, and the New York Globe.
Writing in 1904 for the Colored American Magazine on the sixth annual meeting of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, held in Mobile, Alabama, Washington reported not only on the delegate's focus on black womanhood, standards of morality, and the setting up of a youth reformatory but also on the pervasive effects of segregation and racial prejudice within the city itself. With an eye to discrimination on all levels of society, Washington noted, for instance, the playgrounds that were set aside for the exclusive use of white children, while black children "look on longingly, but dare not touch the sacred structure." Facts on File History Database Center'
She was a long-time educator and a frequent contributor of articles to magazines and newspapers typically concerning some aspects in America. Washington was a great-granddaughter of Mary Jefferson Turpin, a paternal great aunt of President Thomas Jefferson.
Josephine Turpin was born in Goochland County, Virginia on July 31, 1861, daughter of Augustus A. Turpin and Maria V. Crump.
Her father Augustus A. Turpin was a son of a former slave named Mary and Edwin Durock Turpin (1783–1868), a grandson of Mary Jefferson Turpin and a great-grandfather of Odette Harper Hines.
In her 1995 book, All is Never Said: The Narrative of Odette Harper Hines (written with Judith Rollins), Hines reveals that Mr. Turpin fell in love with Mary not long after she arrived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana aboard a slave ship and became his property. Sometime later he took the very unusual step for the day, he married her.
According to Hines, her great-grandfather took care that their children received an education and also broke with common practice in allowing his slaves to learn basic reading, writing and arithmetic.
Mrs. Josephine Turpin Washington Washington died at the age of eighty-seven at her daughter's home in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Bio;
By
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Historian
Mrs. Josephine Turpin Washington ::;
(July 31, 1861 – March 17, 1949) She was a very time noted Negroe-American writer and teacher.
Turpin was first educated at home and later at public schools in Goochland County, Virginia. After all her family relocated to Richmond, Virginia she attended the Richmond Institute, later known as the Richmond Theological Seminary.
She was among the lucky 1886 graduating class at Howard University where during summer breaks she clerked for Frederick Douglass, then recorder of deeds for the Washington, District of Columbia.
After her graduation she taught mathematics at Howard University until her marriage in 1888 to Dr. Samuel Somerville Hawkins Washington, M.D. brought her to Birmingham, Alabama.
Over her career Mrs. Washington would serve on the faculties of Selma University, Tuskegee Institute, her husband held the position of school physician, Alabama State University and Wilberforce University. She retired in 1934 after twenty years as dean of women at Wilberforce University.
Mrs. Washington's first article accepted for print, "A Talk about Church Fairs," appeared in the Virginia Star while she was still in her teens. In the piece she questioned the sale of wine at church fundraising events. Washington wrote essays such as "Higher Education for Women," that appeared in the People's Advocate, and the introductions to Women of Distinction (1893) by Lawson A. Scruggs and Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (1926) by Hallie Quinn Brown. She covered the gauntlet of issues concerning Americans of Color, including employment and educational opportunities, the raising of children,the challenges that threatens the bond between women and men. Washington defended the "progressive woman" who yearned for both a successful professional career with a domestic life. As chair of the Executive Board of the Alabama State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Washington penned their Federation Hymn, Mother Alabama. She submitted numerous articles over her life for print in such publications as the Christian Recorder, the New York Freeman,, the A. M. E. Review, The Colored American Magazine, and the New York Globe.
Writing in 1904 for the Colored American Magazine on the sixth annual meeting of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, held in Mobile, Alabama, Washington reported not only on the delegate's focus on black womanhood, standards of morality, and the setting up of a youth reformatory but also on the pervasive effects of segregation and racial prejudice within the city itself. With an eye to discrimination on all levels of society, Washington noted, for instance, the playgrounds that were set aside for the exclusive use of white children, while black children "look on longingly, but dare not touch the sacred structure." Facts on File History Database Center'
She was a long-time educator and a frequent contributor of articles to magazines and newspapers typically concerning some aspects in America. Washington was a great-granddaughter of Mary Jefferson Turpin, a paternal great aunt of President Thomas Jefferson.
Josephine Turpin was born in Goochland County, Virginia on July 31, 1861, daughter of Augustus A. Turpin and Maria V. Crump.
Her father Augustus A. Turpin was a son of a former slave named Mary and Edwin Durock Turpin (1783–1868), a grandson of Mary Jefferson Turpin and a great-grandfather of Odette Harper Hines.
In her 1995 book, All is Never Said: The Narrative of Odette Harper Hines (written with Judith Rollins), Hines reveals that Mr. Turpin fell in love with Mary not long after she arrived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana aboard a slave ship and became his property. Sometime later he took the very unusual step for the day, he married her.
According to Hines, her great-grandfather took care that their children received an education and also broke with common practice in allowing his slaves to learn basic reading, writing and arithmetic.
Mrs. Josephine Turpin Washington Washington died at the age of eighty-seven at her daughter's home in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Bio;
By
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Historian
(July 31, 1861 – March 17, 1949) She was a very time noted Negroe-American writer and teacher.
Turpin was first educated at home and later at public schools in Goochland County, Virginia. After all her family relocated to Richmond, Virginia she attended the Richmond Institute, later known as the Richmond Theological Seminary.
She was among the lucky 1886 graduating class at Howard University where during summer breaks she clerked for Frederick Douglass, then recorder of deeds for the Washington, District of Columbia.
After her graduation she taught mathematics at Howard University until her marriage in 1888 to Dr. Samuel Somerville Hawkins Washington, M.D. brought her to Birmingham, Alabama.
Over her career Mrs. Washington would serve on the faculties of Selma University, Tuskegee Institute, her husband held the position of school physician, Alabama State University and Wilberforce University. She retired in 1934 after twenty years as dean of women at Wilberforce University.
Mrs. Washington's first article accepted for print, "A Talk about Church Fairs," appeared in the Virginia Star while she was still in her teens. In the piece she questioned the sale of wine at church fundraising events. Washington wrote essays such as "Higher Education for Women," that appeared in the People's Advocate, and the introductions to Women of Distinction (1893) by Lawson A. Scruggs and Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (1926) by Hallie Quinn Brown. She covered the gauntlet of issues concerning Americans of Color, including employment and educational opportunities, the raising of children,the challenges that threatens the bond between women and men. Washington defended the "progressive woman" who yearned for both a successful professional career with a domestic life. As chair of the Executive Board of the Alabama State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Washington penned their Federation Hymn, Mother Alabama. She submitted numerous articles over her life for print in such publications as the Christian Recorder, the New York Freeman,, the A. M. E. Review, The Colored American Magazine, and the New York Globe.
Writing in 1904 for the Colored American Magazine on the sixth annual meeting of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, held in Mobile, Alabama, Washington reported not only on the delegate's focus on black womanhood, standards of morality, and the setting up of a youth reformatory but also on the pervasive effects of segregation and racial prejudice within the city itself. With an eye to discrimination on all levels of society, Washington noted, for instance, the playgrounds that were set aside for the exclusive use of white children, while black children "look on longingly, but dare not touch the sacred structure." Facts on File History Database Center'
She was a long-time educator and a frequent contributor of articles to magazines and newspapers typically concerning some aspects in America. Washington was a great-granddaughter of Mary Jefferson Turpin, a paternal great aunt of President Thomas Jefferson.
Josephine Turpin was born in Goochland County, Virginia on July 31, 1861, daughter of Augustus A. Turpin and Maria V. Crump.
Her father Augustus A. Turpin was a son of a former slave named Mary and Edwin Durock Turpin (1783–1868), a grandson of Mary Jefferson Turpin and a great-grandfather of Odette Harper Hines.
In her 1995 book, All is Never Said: The Narrative of Odette Harper Hines (written with Judith Rollins), Hines reveals that Mr. Turpin fell in love with Mary not long after she arrived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana aboard a slave ship and became his property. Sometime later he took the very unusual step for the day, he married her.
According to Hines, her great-grandfather took care that their children received an education and also broke with common practice in allowing his slaves to learn basic reading, writing and arithmetic.
Mrs. Josephine Turpin Washington Washington died at the age of eighty-seven at her daughter's home in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Bio;
By
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Historian
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