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Hattie V. Feger

Hattie Virginia Feger was an American educator. She was on the faculty of Clark Atlanta University in the 1930s and 1940s.

Hattie V. Feger
Portrait of a light-skinned African-American woman with dark hair in an updo.
Hattie V. Feger, from a 1924 publication.
Born
Hattie Virginia Feger

Louisiana
OccupationEducator
Years active1890s-1940s

Early life

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Feger was from New Orleans, Louisiana. She trained as a teacher at Straight University,[1][2] with further coursework at Michigan State Normal College[3] and the University of Chicago.[1] She completed a bachelor's degree in 1921 and a master's degree in 1924, both at the University of Cincinnati. Her master's thesis was titled "Teacher Standards in Negro Schools".[4][5]

While at Cincinnati, she was an organizer and first president of the school's chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.[6] She was a guest of honor at an Alpha Kappa Alpha gathering in Oakland, California, in 1939.[7]

Career

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Feger was a teacher in New Orleans as a young woman.[8][9] In 1893, she attended the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.[10] In 1894, she was a founding officer of the Colored Women's Club of New Orleans.[11] She was a member of the city's Phylis Wheatley Club.[12]

Feger was principal of the Miro Street School in New Orleans beginning in 1911.[13] When the school building was destroyed in a 1915 hurricane. She arranged for temporary classrooms in other buildings after the storm passed, and remained principal when a new school building opened in 1916.[14] She left the following school year to attend graduate school, replaced by Fannie C. Williams.[15][16]

Feger was director of education at the West End Branch of the YWCA in Cincinnati in 1930.[17] She was active in the Atlanta branch of the NAACP in the 1930s.[18][19] From 1931, Feger was a professor of education at Atlanta University and Spelman College.[20][21] She served on the Atlanta University Defense Committee during World War II,[22] and retired from the school in 1944.[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b University of Chicago (1917). Annual Register. p. 732.
  2. ^ "Straight College Catalogue 1891-1892". Internet Archive. 1892. p. 14. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  3. ^ Michigan State Normal College (1910). Year Book of the Michigan State Normal College for ...: Including Register of Students, Also Announcements for ... The College. p. 218.
  4. ^ "The Horizon". The Crisis: 124. July 1924.
  5. ^ Cincinnati, Ohio University Teachers College (1927). Abstracts: Graduate Theses in Education, Teachers College, University of Cincinnati. pp. x.
  6. ^ "The Horizon". The Crisis. 22: 127. July 1921.
  7. ^ Wysinger, Lena M. (1939-07-30). "Activities Among Negroes". Oakland Tribune. p. 18. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Schools, New Orleans (La ) Public (1903). Superintendent's Annual Report, New Orleans Public Schools.
  9. ^ American Missionary Association (1893). Annual Report of the American Missionary Association. p. 47.
  10. ^ "In Louisiana's Corner". The Times-Picayune. 1893-09-08. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Moore, Alice Ruth (November 1894). "Louisiana". The Woman's Era. 1: 6.
  12. ^ "Frederick Douglass's Memory". The Times-Picayune. 1895-03-21. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Enrollment at Schools Growing". The Times-Democrat. 1911-09-27. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "A Community Builds A School 1905-1929". CreoleGen. 2013-03-30. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  15. ^ Galatowitsch, Diane. "Williams, Fannie C. (1882-1980)". Amistad Research Center, Tulane University. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  16. ^ DeVore, Donald E. (2015-02-18). Defying Jim Crow: African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-6039-8.
  17. ^ "Y. W. C. A." The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1930-11-16. p. 89. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Branch News". The Crisis: 118. April 1939.
  19. ^ "Atlanta Campaign Raised $1033". The Crisis: 151. May 1936.
  20. ^ Bacote, Clarence Albert (1969). The Story of Atlanta University: A Century of Service, 1865-1965. Atlanta University. p. 286.
  21. ^ "Atlanta University Summer Session to Begin on June 13th". The New York Age. 1938-05-28. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ "Atlanta University Faculty Subscribes for Defense Bonds". The New York Age. 1942-03-14. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "College and School News". The Crisis: 213. July 1944.
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