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The Task Of Negro Womanhood

The Task Of Negro Womanhood . Elise Johnson McDougald. Elise Johnson McDougald. Real name Ayer, Gertrude Elise Born in New York city in 1885 Grew up in midtown Manhattan 32 nd Street

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The Task Of Negro Womanhood

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  1. The Task Of Negro Womanhood Elise Johnson McDougald

  2. Elise Johnson McDougald • Real name Ayer, Gertrude Elise • Born in New York city in 1885 • Grew up in midtown Manhattan 32nd Street • Attended Girls’ Technical High School (which is now Washington Irving High School) where she became the school first African American graduate. • After high school, she attend New York Training School for teaching. • Attended City and Hunter College and Columbia University • She began teaching in New York Public School in 1905 • She is a journalist and teacher. • Wrote about the diversity of black woman during the Harlem Renaissance.

  3. Achievements • First African American female principal in New York City. • First Vocation guidance instructor in elementary school. • 25 years she was the only black person to hold the position of principal within the New York City Public School. • 1916 after having children, she started working on labor issues that affected African American girls an women. • The Double Task: “The Struggle Of Women for Sex and Race Emancipation”, appeared in Survey Graphic, Alain Lockes Magazine in 1925.

  4. Elise Johnson Mcdougald

  5. 3 T’s • Theme: Negro women and there struggle trying to be own in society. Women has been the “weather vane, indicator, showing which direction the wind of destiny blows.” Meaning they point you the direction. • Tone: calm and serious.Technique: The author used simile in her story but you would also think it would be a metaphor because how she used two different objects as being the same thing. “Like the red an yellow of the tiger lily, the skin of one is brilliant against the star-lit darkness of a racial sister.”

  6. Vocabulary • Pedagogical: of or pertaining to a pedagogous • Comradeship: a person who shares in one’s activates, occupation • Metropolis: any large, busy city • Viciousness: addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral, depraved • Augured: one of a group of ancient roman officials charged with observing an interpreting omens for guidance in public affairs.

  7. Work Cited http://dictionary.reference.com/ http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5126/ http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5126/ http://classicalteam11.wikispaces.com/file/view/Gertrude%20Elsie%20Johnson%20McDougald%20Ayer.pdf/481328664/Gertrude%20Elsie%20Johnson%20McDougald%20Ayer.pdf

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