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Assignment for Soc314, Sociology of Gender

Topic 1: Amelia Greenhall Topic 2: Women Writers' Suffrage League Topic 3: Ladies Learning Code Topic 4: Claire ANderson Topic 5: Jean Blackwell HutsonImanisha (talk) 05:35, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Early life and education
Jean Blackwell Hutson was born in Sommerfield, Florida. Her father, Paul O. Blackwell was a common merchant and her mother, Sarah Myers Blackwell was an elementary school teacher. Hutson and her mother relocated to Baltimore at age 4 while her father remained in Florida. At a young age, Jean developed a love for reading. In 1831, Jean graduated from Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High school at a tender age of 15 as valedictorian. Attending this school gave her a deep love for black history. She was taught by the daughters of two famous black leaders, W.E.B. Dubois and Kelly Miller. After high school, she enrolled in University of Michigan with the intentions of studying psychiatry. Due to the Great Depression, she had to switch gears and attend Barnard College in New York City. Jean graduated in 1935 with a BA in English being the second black female to graduate. The following year she graduated from Columbia School of Library Service with her MA.

Career
Jean first began her professional career as a high school librarian in Baltimore from 1936 to 1939 in the New York Public Library. Jean had a huge role in the development of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black History, which was the world's most inclusive collection of material that documented people of African descent history and culture. Jean