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Bowman, Barbara Taylor  

Fran Stott

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29 February 2016

child development expert, was born Barbara Taylor in Chicago, Illinois, the second daughter of Robert Taylor and Dorothy Taylor. Her parents deeply valued education and public service, and instilled those values in their daughters. Taylor's grandfather, Robert Robinson Taylor, graduated from MIT with a degree in architecture and design, and was vice president of Tuskegee Institute, a historic black college. Her father, Robert Rochon Taylor, a Chicago businessman, became the first African American to chair the Chicago Housing Authority. He focused his daughter Barbara and her older sister, Lauranita, on the need for quality public housing. Bowman's mother, trained as a teacher, was engaged in civic work, including a community arts center and child welfare programs.

Bowman attended boarding school in East Northfield, Massachusetts and went on to receive her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York in 1950. After graduation she married pathologist James ...

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Caines, Jeannette Franklin  

Maia Angelique Sorrells

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Published in print:
15 February 2001
Published online:
01 December 2006

The works of Jeannette Franklin Caines are generally concerned with parent-child communication and other social and political issues. Jeannette Caines often presents these topics in the voice of a child. Abby (1973) explores the dynamics of adoption and the complex issues surrounding the expansion of the family, while her second book, Daddy (1977), deals with divorce and the necessity of maintaining healthy relationships between the child and both parents. Chilly Stomach (1986) concerns the difficulties of defining and confronting sexual abuse. Often Caines's books end without a resolution to the problem. This encourages thought and discussion and facilitates effective communication and problem solving between parents and children.

Caines was born in New York in 1937 and has dedicated much of her life to improving the quality of children s and young adult literature In addition to receiving the National Black Child Development Institute ...

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Kittrell, Flemmie Pansy  

Anita Nahal

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15 March 2013
Published online:
31 May 2013

home economist and university professor, was born in Henderson, North Carolina, to James Lee Kittrell, a farmer, and Alice Mills Kittrell, a homemaker and possibly a farmworker. Both were of Cherokee Indian and African American descent. The seventh of nine siblings and the youngest daughter, Kittrell attended school in Vance County, North Carolina, and received her BS degree in 1928 from Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in Virginia. In 1930 she earned a master's and in 1938 a PhD, both from Cornell University. The first African American woman to receive a doctorate in home economics, Kittrell became an influential educator, nutritionist, and philanthropist, a true renaissance woman who epitomized leadership, wisdom, and progressive qualities in her life.

Kittrell was widely published and received many scholarships and awards during her academic career These included the Rosenwald Scholarship the General Education Board Scholarship the Anna Cora Smith Scholarship and ...

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Kittrell, Flemmie Pansy  

Diane Epstein

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19 May 2005
Published online:
01 December 2006

Dr Flemmie Kittrell was the first African American woman to receive high honors in the general field of home economics and science a term which she put into use and which encompasses nutrition child development and related sciences She was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Cornell University she accomplished this in the 1920s when few black women went on to receive advanced degrees She received her PhD with honors and there is a home sciences building on the Cornell campus named for her Her accomplishments were noted not just because of her academic excellence but because she was instrumental in the actual building of the structure Further her ideas added to the development of the new home sciences curriculum Kittrell traveled down paths that even few white women would have considered at the time More than just her scholarship distinguished her she had the daring to ...