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Fairfax, Jean, 1920-2019

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Biography:

Jean Fairfax was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Folowing her education in theology, Fairfax moved South where she served as the Dean of Women at both Kentucky State College and Tuskegee Institute. Fairfax resided in the South from 1942 until 1946; thereafter, she spent two years abroad doing missionary work, after which she moved to New England. Around 1957, she returned to the South, where she became actively involved in the Civil Rights movement.--From Oral Histories of the American South biography.

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Fairfax, Jean, 1920-2019

Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

3 items in 3 collections (expand all)

Photographs of the 1977 annual institute of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) at the Hotel Americana in New York City.

Creator:: Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:: 1977-05
Collection:: Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Freedom Information Service--WATS reports, August 1964 (Freedom Information Service records, 1962-1979; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 780, Reel 1, Segment 6)

Creator:: Freedom Information Service
Date of Original:: 1964
Collection:: Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

Oral history interview with Jean Fairfax, October 15, 1983

Creator:: Fairfax, Jean, 1920-
Date of Original:: 1985-03-06
Collection:: Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)