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Wilhelmina Marguerita Crosson was born on 26 April, 1900 in Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S., is a Wilhelmina Marguerita Crosson was educator. Discover Wilhelmina Marguerita Crosson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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Occupation Educator
Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 26 April, 1900
Birthday 26 April
Birthplace Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of death 28 May, 1991
Died Place Boston, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1900

Wilhelmina Marguerita Crosson (April 26, 1900 – May 28, 1991) was an educator and school administrator known for her innovative teaching methods.

Wilhelmina Marguerita Crosson was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, on April 26, 1900, to Charles Tasker Crosson and Sallie Alice Davis Crosson.

She was the fourth of nine children.

1906

In 1906 she moved with her family to Boston, where she attended the Hyde School and Girls' High School in Roxbury.

1920

Crosson began her career in 1920 at the Hyde School in Boston's North End, teaching remedial reading to the children of Italian immigrants.

She was one of the first African-American women to teach in the Boston public schools.

1925

In 1925 she founded the Aristo Club of Boston, an organization of black professional women who studied and taught black history and awarded scholarships to black children.

The Boston school system began observing Negro History Week as a result of the Aristo Club's efforts.

1933

In 1933, Crosson published a groundbreaking article in the Elementary English Review titled "The Negro in Children's Literature".

It was the first article in a mainstream American teaching journal asking teachers to celebrate African-American culture, and the first article by a self-described "Negro" author to appear in the journal.

In the article Crosson recommends the teaching of "Negro literature" (which she defines as works by, for, and about black people), reasoning that black children should not be deprived of the literature of their own race, and that all children would benefit from the experience:

She also recommends the teaching of African-American history, presenting the achievements of African Americans such as Harriet Tubman alongside those of whites, proposing that this would "...make the Negro child strive to lift his race to higher levels, and the white child feel that the Negro race has played its part in the making of America."

1934

She earned a B.S. degree in education at Boston Teachers College in 1934 and a master's degree in educational administration from Boston University in 1954.

1935

One of the first African-American female schoolteachers in Boston, she developed the city's first remedial reading program in 1935, and was an early advocate of black history education.

One of the first American teachers to recognize the need for remedial reading classes, she developed Boston's first remedial reading program in 1935.

Crosson's pioneering methods were so successful that administrators and other teachers were regularly sent to observe her classes, and she was invited to lecture on the subject.

1945

In 1945 she took a sabbatical to study intercultural education in Mexico's public schools for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

Crosson was one of the few women to be given a field assignment for the ASNLH in those days, and was later elected to its executive council.

Upon her return, she began teaching at the all-black Hyde School in Roxbury, where she made many changes in the curriculum and inspired a love of reading in her students.

She also volunteered as a Sunday school teacher at the Twelfth Baptist Church, and taught black history lessons on Saturdays.

1952

Crosson became president of the Palmer Memorial Institute, an all-black preparatory school in Sedalia, North Carolina, in 1952.

She established many new programs at the school and obtained funding from the government and the Ford Foundation.

1966

She retired in 1966.

1968

In 1968 she worked with North Carolina College developing a training program for Peace Corps volunteers on assignment in Liberia.

1970

In 1970 she returned to Boston, where she did volunteer work in homeless shelters and as a tutor.

She died at the age of 91 at her home in the South End of Boston.