Hattie V. Feger
Hattie V. Feger | |
|---|---|
 Hattie V. Feger, from a 1924 publication. | |
| Born | Hattie Virginia Feger Louisiana |
| Occupation | Educator |
| Years active | 1890s-1940s |
Hattie Virginia Feger was an American educator. She was on the faculty of Clark Atlanta University in the 1930s and 1940s.
Early life[edit]
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 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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ a b University of Chicago (1917). Annual Register. p. 732.
- ^ "Straight College Catalogue 1891-1892". Internet Archive. 1892. p. 14. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Horizon". The Crisis: 124. July 1924.
- ^ Cincinnati, Ohio University Teachers College (1927). Abstracts: Graduate Theses in Education, Teachers College, University of Cincinnati. pp. x.
- ^ "The Horizon". The Crisis. 22: 127. July 1921.
- ^ Wysinger, Lena M. (1939-07-30). "Activities Among Negroes". Oakland Tribune. p. 18. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Schools, New Orleans (La ) Public (1903). Superintendent's Annual Report, New Orleans Public Schools.
- ^ American Missionary Association (1893). Annual Report of the American Missionary Association. p. 47.
- ^ "In Louisiana's Corner". The Times-Picayune. 1893-09-08. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Moore, Alice Ruth (November 1894). "Louisiana". The Woman's Era. 1: 6.
- ^ "Frederick Douglass's Memory". The Times-Picayune. 1895-03-21. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Enrollment at Schools Growing". The Times-Democrat. 1911-09-27. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "A Community Builds A School 1905-1929". CreoleGen. 2013-03-30. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ Galatowitsch, Diane. "Williams, Fannie C. (1882-1980)". Amistad Research Center, Tulane University. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Y. W. C. A." The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1930-11-16. p. 89. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Branch News". The Crisis: 118. April 1939.
- ^ "Atlanta Campaign Raised $1033". The Crisis: 151. May 1936.
- ^ Bacote, Clarence Albert (1969). The Story of Atlanta University: A Century of Service, 1865-1965. Atlanta University. p. 286.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Atlanta University Faculty Subscribes for Defense Bonds". The New York Age. 1942-03-14. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "College and School News". The Crisis: 213. July 1944.
External links[edit]
- Letters between Feger and Horace Mann Bond, dated 1939, in the Horace Mann Bond Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
