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Posted on March 11, 2016

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Do you know Dazelle Foster Lowe? She was key in br

Do you know Dazelle Foster Lowe? She was key in bringing the skills and tools of home demonstration* to Black women and girls across NC, and she is a Black woman who you should have learned about in school. #BlackHistoryMonth

Dazelle Foster Lowe was first hired as one of the first 41 Black women home demonstration agents in NC in 1919 to assist white agents for canning season during WWI. She was hired full-time in 1923 as the agent for Wake County. In 1925, she became the district home agent, in charge of all Black home demonstration work in NC.

By 1929, Alamance, Columbus, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Robeson, Wake, and Wayne were the seven NC counties with established home demonstration organizations for Black women and girls. Lowe visited each county several times per year, organized county and statewide meetings, visited unorganized counties to encourage them to form their own clubs, and produced an annual report documenting the membership and activities across the state. In 1937, she also started a college loan fund for Black members.

By 1944, there were enough Black home demonstration clubs to divide NC into three districts, and Lowe ran the new Western district. She worked with home demonstration until she retired in 1955.

*Home demonstration work started as a grassroots movement to teach boys and girls how to grow, harvest, and manage a farm and its products more efficiently and scientifically. It quickly became apparent parents were just as interested as their children, and for women, learning how to can produce or raise chickens and sell the resulting goods meant they could earn their own money, for their families or for themselves. Funds were proposed for land grant colleges to administer home demonstration programs, and initially, the money was to be split between white and Black schools. However, racist elements in the US Congress blocked this and restricted even private funding for Black home demonstration offices.

Interested in learning more about home demonstration? Make sure to attend one of our food preservation classes when we open up our schedule again! We LOVE to talk about this history and its ties to today!

Photo credit: NCSU Libraries

It’s Valentine’s Day and the perfect time to s

It’s Valentine’s Day and the perfect time to share some sisterly love with y’all. In recognizing Black women with ties to Raleigh who you should have learned about in history class for #BlackHistoryMonth, today’s focus is on: Sarah Louise and Annie Elizabeth Delaney.

Sarah Louise “Sadie” (Sept. 19, 1889 - Jan. 25, 1999) and Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” (Sept. 3, 1891 - Sept. 25, 1995) were daughters of Henry Beard Delany and Nanette “Nanny” James Logan Delany.

Henry and Nanny met at St. Augustine’s, where she graduated valedictorian and he was salutatorian. Both became teachers and administrators, and Sadie and Bessie grew up on campus along with eight brothers and sisters. Henry designed St. Augustine’s Chapel in 1895. He became NC’s first Black Episcopal bishop (and the second in the country) in 1918.

In 1910, Sadie graduated from St. Aug’s and went to work with Dr. Booker T. Washington and the Negro Rural School Fund, introducing domestic science skills in Wake County’s Black schools in the Method, Wake Forest, and Cary areas. She worked six days a week, often borrowing kitchens in local homes for classes. By 1916, she had advanced to supervisor of all Wake County’s Black schools. Sadie then moved on to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, then Columbia University where she got her BA and MA in education.

Bessie graduated from St. Aug’s in 1911 and enrolled in Columbia’s School of Dentistry in 1919, becoming New York’s second Black woman dentist. Her brother, Henry, got his dental degree from NYU in 1919, and they shared a practice. All three siblings were active in the Harlem Renaissance and civil rights protests and marches. In fact, several more members of the Delany family moved to Harlem and New York in response to the increase in Jim Crow laws in the South.

When Sadie and Bessie were both over 100, they co-authored Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years with New York Times columnist Amy Hill Heath. It was on the NYT bestseller list for 105 weeks and became a Tony-nominated Broadway play.

Sadie and Bessie lived together their whole lives and are both buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Raleigh.

Photo credit: Columbia University

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