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Rosa Slade Gragg

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99:. This friendship led Gragg to become an organizer and founder of organizations aimed at black women, organizing multiple programs around Detroit. Gragg started to become involved in clubs after joining the Current Topic Study Club in 1926. In 1941, Gragg bought a house in Detroit, which she used as a meeting place for clubs. Neighbors became angry at her purchase, and Gragg was forced to close off the front door and make the side door the main entrance for the house. 115:
in Detroit. The school was called the "Tuskegee of the North" and trained over 2,000 women and veterans. It closed in 1952. The school was open to all people of all races. The school offered classes in trades, including tailoring, dress-making, and food production and service. In 1949, Detroit mayor
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Over her career, Gragg served on or was affiliated with many other positions, including: the Advisory Council of the International Movement of the Atlantic Union, the Gandhi Society for Human Rights, and as the secretary on the National Women's Committee on Civil Rights. She also served in numerous
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that had been in Frederick Douglass's library to the White House. The portrait hung in the Lincoln Room. This was the first time in United States history that a black organization gave a gift to the White House. Also in 1962, the club opened multiple women's health clinics in Washington, D.C. In
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Gragg launched the restoration campaign at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., where numerous politicians were in attendance. Also in attendance was Douglass's adopted grandson, Joseph K. Douglass. The club was successful in their pursuit, and in 1962 Senate Bill 2399 was passed in
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appointed Gragg as the president of the Commission of the Detroit Department of Public Welfare. She was the first black person named to be head of the committee. The commission had an operating budget of 20 million dollars and nearly 2,000 employees. During
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in 1958, after becoming vice-president in 1957. Gragg was the president from 1958 to 1964. In 1960, she commissioned historian Charles H. Wesley to write the history of the National Association of Colored Women. The book was published in 1984, and entitled
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to a national advisory board of the Federal Office of Civil Defense, entitled the Board of the National Volunteer's Participation Committee of Civil Defense. Gragg was the only black person to serve on the board at the time. In 1943, Michigan Governor
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businessman James Robert Gragg. They had one child named James R. Gragg Jr., who went on to become a lawyer and a judge in Michigan. Her husband died on December 16, 1956. She died on February 19, 1989, after a long illness.
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appointed her the advisor on race relations to the Michigan Office of Civil Defense. In 1947, Gragg founded the Slade-Gragg Academy of Practical Arts with her husband. The school was the first black
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positions on matters related to the city of Detroit, including the Women's Committee for the 250th Anniversary of Detroit. Gragg was a member of: the
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appointed her to the National Citizens Committee for Community Relations, and the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.
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1964, she was unanimously elected president emeritus of the National Association of Colored Women. Also in 1964,
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in 1950, an in 1955. Gragg received honorary memberships to: the Detroit Urban League Guild, the sorority
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named her one of the "First Ladies of Colored America." In 1946, Gragg was included in the "Who's Who" of
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United Foundation, The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, and the sorority
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In 1961, the National Association of Colored Woman worked toward preserving and restoring
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The History of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs: A Legacy of Service
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Spratling, Cassandra. "Profiles in courage". Detroit Free Press. Detroit Free Press.
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Gray, Madison J. "Distinguished Warriors". The Detroit News. The Detroit News.
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Detroit in Its World Setting: A Three Hundred Year Chronology, 1701-2001
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Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-construction of American History
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Educator, school founder, clubwoman, civic worker, church worker
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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In 1961, Kennedy appointed her to the 2977:20th-century African-American educators 250: 128:Gragg became the 16th president of the 396: 394: 392: 390: 388: 386: 384: 382: 380: 378: 376: 374: 372: 370: 368: 366: 364: 362: 360: 358: 356: 354: 352: 350: 348: 346: 319: 317: 315: 313: 311: 309: 270: 268: 266: 264: 262: 260: 258: 256: 254: 130:National Association of Colored Women 46:Gragg was born on April 30, 1904, in 7: 560: 558: 512: 510: 508: 506: 483: 481: 479: 477: 475: 473: 445: 443: 441: 439: 437: 435: 433: 431: 404:Notable Black American Women, Book 2 3007:20th-century African-American women 2122:Sister Mary Francilene Van de Vyver 14: 2639:American Legion NUWARINE Post 535 2933:Traverse City Ladies Association 528:Poremba, David Lee, ed. (2001). 102:In 1942, Gragg was appointed by 70:. On June 10, 1926, she married 2982:20th-century American educators 2257:Dorean Marguerite Hurley Koenig 104:President Franklin D. Roosevelt 97:National Council of Negro Women 62:(now Tuskegee University), the 1: 2972:University of Michigan alumni 1141:Virginia Cecile Blomer Nordby 671:Mamie Geraldine Neale Bledsoe 632:Michigan Women's Hall of Fame 401:Carney Smith, Jessie (1996). 284:Michigan Women's Hall of Fame 36:Michigan Women's Hall of Fame 2992:People from Hampton, Georgia 2805:Elizabeth Jackson (Michigan) 2075:Woman's Hospital Association 1299:Marie-Therese Guyon Cadillac 930:Louise (Sally) Langdon Brown 450:Hine, Darlene Clark (1994). 2997:Morris Brown College alumni 2736:Margaret Kirchner Stevenson 1406:Carrie Frazier Rogers-Brown 676:Elizabeth Margaret Chandler 168:President Lyndon B. Johnson 3023: 3002:Tuskegee University alumni 2987:African-American activists 2420:Marina von Neumann Whitman 1683:Katharine Dexter McCormick 1663:Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy 1416:Waunetta McClellan Dominic 1238:Catherine Carter Blackwell 212:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 58:. 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Detroit
Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
Hampton, Georgia
Morris Brown College
summa cum laude
Tuskegee Institute
University of Michigan
Wayne State University
Detroit
Eatonton
Eleanor Roosevelt
Savannah
National Council of Negro Women
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Murray Van Wagoner
vocational school
Eugene Van Antwerp
World War II
National Association of Colored Women
President John F. Kennedy
President's Commission On the Status of Women
Frederick Douglass
Washington, D.C.
United States Congress
Abraham Lincoln
President Lyndon B. Johnson
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
March of Dimes
Sigma Gamma Rho

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