Elizabeth Tate

For other people named Elizabeth Tate, see Elizabeth Tate (disambiguation).

Civil rights advocate during the American Civil Rights Movement

Elizabeth Crawford ("Bettye") Tate (June 22, 1906 – September 11, 1999) was a civil rights advocate during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s that desegregated African-Americans across the United States of America.

Biography

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Tate graduated from Fairfield High School, Iowa, in 1926. Tate worked at the cardiovascular lab at the University of Iowa hospital; she retired in 1976.^[1]

In 1938 Tate bought a house for 3,300ドル^[2] that would later^[3] become a boarding house in Iowa City for African-American students who were not allowed to use the normal university accommodation.^[4]^[5] In the house Tate did the cooking while the boys staying at the house cleaned up.^[2] The house, Tate Arms,^[6] was named an historic landmark in 2014^[7] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.^[8] Tate Arms started housing black students in 1938,^[7] and created a "home away from home" for the people who lived there.^[9] Tate sold the building in 1979.^[10]

Honors

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In 2005, Iowa City named its alternative high school, Tate High School, in honor of Tate.^[10]

References

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^ Beers, Johanna Nelson (1976年06月26日). "Have you heard?". Iowa City Press-Citizen. p. 5. Retrieved 2022年04月15日.
^ ^a ^b "Elizabeth Tate". Iowa City Press-Citizen. 2010年03月11日. p. 102. Retrieved 2022年04月15日.
^ Arnold, Madison (2017年01月21日). "Grant to preserve black student housing". The Gazette. p. 12. Retrieved 2022年04月15日.
^ "Iowa Women's Archives - Elizabeth Crawford Tate Papers - The University of Iowa Libraries". Sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on 2012年05月08日. Retrieved 2012年10月16日.
^ "Iowa City's Fabulous 150 | Iowa City Press-Citizen | Progress 2010". Press-citizen-media.com. Retrieved 2012年10月16日.
^ Johnson, Richard A.; Codagnone, Brian (2002). The Boston Garden. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-1152-8.
^ ^a ^b Castle, Chase (2014年08月15日). "Commission names Tate Arms building an historic landmark". Iowa City Press-Citizen. pp. A3. Retrieved 2022年04月15日.
^ "Two Iowa City landmarks added to National Register of Historic". IDCA. 2020年03月09日. Retrieved 2022年04月15日.
^ "Refuges from racism". The Gazette. 1999年09月26日. pp. [1], [2] . Retrieved 2022年04月15日.
^ ^a ^b Gowans, Alison (February 22, 2020). "Homes planted in history". newspaperarchive.com. pp. [3], [4] . Retrieved 2022年04月15日.