Florence Beatty-Brown

Florence Beatty-Brown
Florence Beatty-Brown, from 1951 newspaper
Born
Florence Rebekah Beatty

December 16, 1912
Cairo, Illinois, U.S.
DiedSeptember 7, 2002 (age 89)
Columbia, Maryland, U.S.
Other namesFlorence Beatty Brown
OccupationEducator

Florence Rebekah Beatty-Brown (December 16, 1912 – September 7, 2002)[1] was an American educator and sociologist who taught at Fayetteville State Teachers College, Meramec Community College, Lincoln University and Harris-Stowe State University. She worked with Carter G. Woodson on Negro History Bulletin and Negro History Week. She consulted on education projects in Liberia and Thailand.

Early life and education

Beatty was born in Cairo, Illinois,[2] the daughter of Webster Barton Beatty and Alice Titus Beatty.[3] Her father was a dentist and her mother was a teacher; her brother Webster Barton Beatty Jr. was a YMCA executive,[4] and national campaign director of the United Negro College Fund.[5][6] She graduated from Fisk University in 1933,[7] and earned two master's degrees at the University of Illinois, in 1936 and 1939.[2][8] She completed doctoral studies in sociology in 1951, at the University of Illinois, with a dissertation titled "The Negro as Portrayed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1920 to 1950".[9][10] She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta.[3]

Career

Beatty-Brown received two fellowships from the Rosenwald Fund,[3] in 1934–1935, to study rural education in Louisiana, and in 1942–1943, to study Black families.[11][12] She taught at Fayetteville State Teachers College from 1937 to 1945, at Lincoln University from 1945 to 1947, at Stowe Teachers College from 1949 to 1954,[13] at Harris Teachers College from 1954 to 1963, and at Meramec Community College from 1963 to 1983. From 1961 to 1963 she served on a team of educators to develop curriculum for Zorzor Rural Teacher Training Institute in Liberia. She held a Fulbright grant to establish a sociology graduate program at Chiang Mai University in Thailand.[9]

Publications

Beatty-Brown was a founding member of the editorial board of the Negro History Bulletin, and wrote several articles for the publication.[9][14]

Personal life

Beatty married fellow educator Robert Duane Brown. They had a son, Robert Jr. She died in 2002, at the age of 89, at a nursing home in Columbia, Maryland.[20]

References

  1. ^ Birth and death dates as given in the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index, via Ancestry.
  2. ^ a b Fund, Julius Rosenwald (1940). Review for the Two-year Period ... The Fund. p. 21.
  3. ^ a b c "Florence B. Brown Receives Degree". The Call. 1951-11-23. p. 23. Retrieved 2025-02-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Robinson, Harriet (1943-04-17). "Love of People Fashions Career for Doctor's Son Who Turned Thumbs Down on Dentistry". The Detroit Tribune. p. 9. Retrieved 2025-02-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Walton, Andrea (2005-02-15). Women and Philanthropy in Education. Indiana University Press. pp. 286–288. ISBN 978-0-253-11131-9.
  6. ^ "Mother of St. Louisan Dies in Raleigh, N.C." The St. Louis Argus. 1960-03-04. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-02-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Fisk University to Award 78 Degrees". Nashville Banner. 1933-06-09. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-02-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Fayetteville Teacher Gets Signal Honor". New Pittsburgh Courier. 1939-10-28. p. 23. Retrieved 2025-02-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ a b c Turner, Francena F. L. "Finding Florence: The Need for Community College Educators as Topics for Historical Research" The Community College Context 6(2)(March 2021): 1-3.
  10. ^ "College and School News". The Crisis: 683. December 1951.
  11. ^ "Rosenwald Fund Announces Fellowships, Scholarships". Atlanta Daily World. 1942-05-05. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-02-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Beilke, Jane. "'Deserving To Go Further': Philanthropic Fellowships, African American Women, and the Development of Higher Educational Leadership in the South, 1930-1954" ERIC (April 1999).
  13. ^ "Stowe Prof. Receives Her Doctorate". The St. Louis Argus. 1951-11-09. p. 1. Retrieved 2025-02-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Negro Historians To Start Publication of Children's Bulletin". The Black Dispatch. 1937-09-16. p. 7. Retrieved 2025-02-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Beatty-Brown, Florence. "Leonora Tecumseh Jackson" Negro History Bulletin 4, no. 6 (1941): 133.
  16. ^ Beatty-Brown, Florence (1942). "John Chavis". Negro History Bulletin. 5 (5): 98–119. ISSN 0028-2529. JSTOR 44246686.
  17. ^ Beatty-Brown, Florence. "George Moses Horton" Negro History Bulletin 5, no. 5 (1942): 103-103.
  18. ^ Brown, F. B. "Leaders in North Carolina: Henry Plummer Cheatham" Negro History Bulletin 5, no. 5 (1942): 103.
  19. ^ Beatty-Brown, Florence R.; Louis, St (1969). "Legal Status of Arkansas Negroes Before Emancipation". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 28 (1): 6–13. doi:10.2307/40030687. ISSN 0004-1823. JSTOR 40030687.
  20. ^ "Obituary for Florence R. Beatty Brown". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 2002-09-20. p. 47. Retrieved 2025-02-20 – via Newspapers.com.
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