Topics Related to Women

Gertrude Weil 1879-1971 (F-65)

Advocate for extending voting rights to women, 1920; reformer active in labor, race, Jewish causes. Home was here.

Sallie S. Cotten 1846-1929 (F-57)

Writer and advocate of women's rights. Helped organize N.C. Federation of Women's Clubs, 1902. Lived one mile south.

Ella Baker 1903-1986 (E-120)

Civil rights leader. She organized the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, April 1960, at Shaw University. Her childhood home ¼ mi. E.

Anna Easter Brown 1879-1957 (E-117)

A founder in 1908 of Alpha Kappa Alpha, nation’s oldest sorority for African Americans; history teacher. Her grave is ¼ mile east.

Bernice Kelly Harris 1891-1973 (E-109)

Novelist, playwright, & storyteller of rural eastern N.C. Author, Purslane (1939), Sweet Beulah Land (1943). Grave 600 yards west.

Westray Battle Boyce Long (E-107)

Director of the Women's Army Corps, 1945-1947. Legion of Merit for N. Africa service, 1943- 1944. Grave 175 yds. S.

Littleton College (E-28)

Chartered in 1883 as Central Institute and in 1887 as Littleton Female College. Burned 1919. Was located here.

Annie Carter Lee 1839-1862 (E-5)

Daughter of Robert E. Lee & Mary Custis Lee. Was buried 1/2 mile W. General Lee visited her grave in 1870.

North Carolina Sorosis (D-76)

Oldest Federated Women's Club in state; chartered 1896; organized in house 6 1/2 miles southwest.

Catherine Kennedy Home (D-67)

For the elderly. Grew from Ladies Benevolent Society, founded, 1845. First home, 1879, stood four blocks east.