Carrie williams clifford biography of williams

  • CLIFFORD, CARRIE WILLIAMS, (Sept.
  • Carrie Williams Clifford was an author, clubwoman, and activist in the women's rights and civil rights movements in the United States.
  • Carrie Williams Clifford was an author, clubwoman, and activist in the women's rights and civil rights movements in the United States.

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    Carrie Williams Clifford

     

    Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists
    Biography of Carrie Williams Clifford, 1862-1934

     

     

     

    Carrie W. Clifford, 1911 in Carrie Williams Clifford, Race Rhymes (Washington, D.C.: R.L. Pendleton, 1911)
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    By Mary-Elizabeth Murphy
    Assistant Professor of History
    Eastern Michigan University

    Carrie Williams was born in 1862 in Chillicothe, Ohio and graduated from high school with honors where she developed passions for literature and theater. She yearned to be a teacher, but the Ohio public schools banned African American women from employment. In 1883, Carrie Williams moved to Parkersburg, West Virginia to teach school. In 1886, she married William H. Clifford and the couple settled in Cleveland, Ohio. William Clifford served two terms in the Ohio House of Representatives. Carrie and William Clifford had two children: Maurice and Joshua. Clifford balanced motherhood with social engagem

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    "Race Rhymes" by Carrie Williams Clifford (1911)

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    CLIFFORD, CARRIE WILLIAMS

    CLIFFORD, CARRIE WILLIAMS, (Sept. 1862- 10 Nov. 1934) was a noted orator, poet, suffragist, and an activist for women and AFRICAN AMERICANS. She helped funnen the Ohio State förbund of Colored Women in 1900 and served as its first president while she lived in Cleveland. 

    Clifford was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Her maternal grandparents, Charles and Martha Allen, had been slaves in Alabama who bought their freedom after the War of 1812, and managed to buy a house near Chillicothe. Clifford’s mother, Mary E. Allen married Joshua T. Williams, and the family moved to Columbus shortly after Carrie was born. Clifford was educated in Columbus, graduating from the integrated public high school.  She  then went to teach school in Parkersburg, West Virginia, before returning home to work in her mother’s hairdressing business. 

    In 1886, she married Ohio state legislator WILLIAM H. CLIFFORD  and moved to Cleveland. The couple ha