Born: 26 February 1880, United States
Died: 23 December 1942
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Jennie Dee Booth
The following is republished from the Library of Congress. This piece falls under under public domain, as copyright does not apply to “any work of the U.S. Government” where “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties” (See, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 105).
Booker T. Washington’s successor as president of Tuskegee was Robert Russa Moton, whose papers are included with those of his wife, educator Jennie Dee Booth Moton (1880-1942), and their daughter, government official Charlotte Moton Hubbard (1911-1994). The Moton Family Papers (8,700 items; 1850-1991; bulk 1930-40) document the family’s efforts to promote educational and economic opportunities for African Americans and to improve race relations. Under Robert Moton’s leadership, Tuskegee developed from a vocational and agricultural high school into a fully accredited college. Jennie Moton served briefly as director of the school’s Department of Women’s Industries and later was a field agent for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Her AAA files include correspondence, statistical reports, and narrative accounts of her activities among black Americans in the rural South, and her NACW files include correspondence with Jessie Daniel Ames, Bertha LaBranche Johnson, and Charlotte Payne. When Charlotte Moton Hubbard was appointed deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs in 1964, she became the highest-ranking black woman in President Lyndon Johnson’s administration, a testament to her many years of work in education, community relations, and government service.
The following is republished from the Library of Congress. This piece falls under under public domain, as copyright does not apply to “any work of the U.S. Government” where “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties” (See, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 105).
1880, Feb. 26 Born, Gloucester County, Va.
1908 Married Robert Russa Moton
1924-1935 Director, Department of Women’s Industries, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.
1936-1942 Field officer, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Agriculture Department
1937-1941 President, National Association of Colored Women
1942, Dec. 23 Died, Hampton, Va.