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Beatrice Morrow Cannady

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Nationality
  
American

Spouse(s)
  
Edward Daniel Cannady


Name
  
Beatrice Cannady

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Born
  
January 9, 1890 (
1890-01-09
)

Occupation
  
publisher, civil rights activist

Died
  
1974, Los Angeles, California, United States

Alma mater
  
Lewis & Clark Law School

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Beatrice Morrow Cannady (January 9, 1890 – August 19, 1974) was a renowned civil rights advocate in early 20th-century Oregon, United States. She was editor of the Advocate, the state's largest African-American newspaper. She was also one of the founders of Oregon's chapter of the NAACP.

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Life

In 1910 Cannady moved from Texas to Portland, Oregon; there, she met Edward Daniel Cannady, editor and co-founder of the Advocate. The couple had two sons together, George (1913-1968) and Ivan (1915-1987). During World War I, Beatrice mobilized African-American women for the war effort, as president of the Colonel Charles Young War Savings Club, and as head of a local Red Cross Auxiliary's "knitting unit."

She graduated from Northwestern College of Law in 1922, and was one of the first black women to graduate from law school in the United States. In 1932 she ran (unsuccessfully) for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives.

Cannady moved to Los Angeles in 1938, where she wrote for the Precinct Reporter and married Reuben Taylor as her third husband. She also converted to Baha'ism in her later years. Beatrice Morrow Cannady Taylor died August 19, 1974, in Los Angeles.

Biography

The "first book-length scholarly treatment of Beatrice Morrow Cannady":

Mangun, Kimberley (2010). A force for change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the struggle for civil rights in Oregon, 1912–1936. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. ISBN 978-0870715808. 

References

Beatrice Morrow Cannady Wikipedia