Hattie V. Feger

Hattie V. Feger
Portrait of a light-skinned African-American woman with dark hair in an updo.
Hattie V. Feger, from a 1924 publication.
Born
Hattie Virginia Feger

Louisiana
OccupationEducator
Years active1890s-1940s

Hattie Virginia Feger was an American educator. She was on the faculty of Clark Atlanta University in the 1930s and 1940s.

Early life

Feger was from New Orleans, Louisiana. She trained as a teacher at Straight University,[1][2] with further coursework at Michigan State Normal College[3] and the University of Chicago.[1] She completed a bachelor's degree in 1921 and a master's degree in 1924, both at the University of Cincinnati. Her master's thesis was titled "Teacher Standards in Negro Schools".[4][5]

While at Cincinnati, she was an organizer and first president of the school's chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.[6] She was a guest of honor at an Alpha Kappa Alpha gathering in Oakland, California, in 1939.[7]

Career

Feger was a teacher in New Orleans as a young woman.[8][9] In 1893, she attended the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.[10] In 1894, she was a founding officer of the Colored Women's Club of New Orleans.[11] She was a member of the city's Phylis Wheatley Club.[12]

Feger was principal of the Miro Street School in New Orleans beginning in 1911.[13] When the school building was destroyed in a 1915 hurricane. She arranged for temporary classrooms in other buildings after the storm passed, and remained principal when a new school building opened in 1916.[14] She left the following school year to attend graduate school, replaced by Fannie C. Williams.[15][16]

Feger was director of education at the West End Branch of the YWCA in Cincinnati in 1930.[17] She was active in the Atlanta branch of the NAACP in the 1930s.[18][19] From 1931, Feger was a professor of education at Atlanta University and Spelman College.[20][21] She served on the Atlanta University Defense Committee during World War II,[22] and retired from the school in 1944.[23]

References

  1. ^ a b University of Chicago (1917). Annual Register. p. 732.
  2. ^ "Straight College Catalogue 1891-1892". Internet Archive. 1892. p. 14. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  3. ^ Michigan State Normal College (1910). Year Book of the Michigan State Normal College for ...: Including Register of Students, Also Announcements for ... The College. p. 218.
  4. ^ "The Horizon". The Crisis: 124. July 1924.
  5. ^ Cincinnati, Ohio University Teachers College (1927). Abstracts: Graduate Theses in Education, Teachers College, University of Cincinnati. pp. x.
  6. ^ "The Horizon". The Crisis. 22: 127. July 1921.
  7. ^ Wysinger, Lena M. (1939-07-30). "Activities Among Negroes". Oakland Tribune. p. 18. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Schools, New Orleans (La ) Public (1903). Superintendent's Annual Report, New Orleans Public Schools.
  9. ^ American Missionary Association (1893). Annual Report of the American Missionary Association. p. 47.
  10. ^ "In Louisiana's Corner". The Times-Picayune. 1893-09-08. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Moore, Alice Ruth (November 1894). "Louisiana". The Woman's Era. 1: 6.
  12. ^ "Frederick Douglass's Memory". The Times-Picayune. 1895-03-21. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Enrollment at Schools Growing". The Times-Democrat. 1911-09-27. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "A Community Builds A School 1905-1929". CreoleGen. 2013-03-30. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  15. ^ Galatowitsch, Diane. "Williams, Fannie C. (1882-1980)". Amistad Research Center, Tulane University. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  16. ^ DeVore, Donald E. (2015-02-18). Defying Jim Crow: African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-6039-8.
  17. ^ "Y. W. C. A." The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1930-11-16. p. 89. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Branch News". The Crisis: 118. April 1939.
  19. ^ "Atlanta Campaign Raised $1033". The Crisis: 151. May 1936.
  20. ^ Bacote, Clarence Albert (1969). The Story of Atlanta University: A Century of Service, 1865-1965. Atlanta University. p. 286.
  21. ^ "Atlanta University Summer Session to Begin on June 13th". The New York Age. 1938-05-28. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ "Atlanta University Faculty Subscribes for Defense Bonds". The New York Age. 1942-03-14. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "College and School News". The Crisis: 213. July 1944.