Effie T. Battle
Effie T. Battle (c.1882 – after 1940)[1] was an African-American poet and educator. The wife of Wallace A. Battle, she served as President of Okolona College from 1927 to 1933, succeeding her husband.[2] [3]
Life
[edit ]Battle was born in Okolona in 1882. Her mother was one-quarter Choctaw. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Rust College. She married Wallace Battle in 1903 and taught teacher education and grammar at Okolona. She published a book of poetry, Gleanings from Dixieland, in 1914.[4] Wallace Battle resigned as President of Okolona and moved North in 1927 following the murder of a teacher on campus. After leading the school for several years, Effie Battle rejoined her husband, living the rest of her life in New York and Connecticut.[3]
Effie and Wallace Battle had four children, one of them the psychoanalyst Marie Battle Singer.
Selected works
[edit ]Gleanings from Dixieland, Tuskegee Institute, AL. 1914.
Notes
[edit ]- ↑ "Effie T Battle in the 1940 Census", Ancestry.com.
- ↑ Ragus Company 1999, p. 4.
- 1 2 Stolzer, Shaun. "'The Castle That Battle Built': Okolona Industrial School and the Failure of Accommodation, 1902-1930". Journal of Mississippi History , 86 (3), 2024. Page 108.
- ↑ Southern Black Creative Writers, 1829-1953: Biobibliographies. (1988). United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
References
[edit ]- Ragus Company (1 March 1999). The Isis Initiative and the Rites of Freedom. Ragus Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-9796416-5-7.
Further reading
[edit ]Baker, W. B. (1924). "History of Rust College". United States: The Author. Self-published book that mentions Battle.
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