- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Jean Childs
- Contributor to Resource:
- Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
- Date of Original:
- 1953
- Subject:
- History
Archaeology - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In 1953, the year before she married civil rights leader Andrew Young, Jean Childs became the first African American to be elected "May Queen" at Manchester College in Indiana. She graduated from Manchester with a bachelor's degree in elementary education and later earned her master's degree in education from Queens College in New York City.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/jean-childs-young-1933-1994/m-11138/
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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