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Mary Jackson McCrorey
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'''Mary Jackson McCrorey''' (November 9, 1867 – January 13, 1944) was an American educator, mission worker, and leader in the [[Young Women's Christian Association]] (YWCA).
==Early life==
Mary C. Jackson was born in [[Athens, Georgia]], the daughter of Alfred Jackson and Louisa Terrell Jackson. She was the Jacksons' eighth child and their first free-born child, born after the end of the [[American Civil War]] and Emancipation. Mary C. Jackson attended [[Atlanta University]].<ref name="Crogman">W. H. Crogman, [http://ift.tt/2CFHhRQ "Mary Jackson McCrorey"] in Arthur Bunyan Caldwell, ed. ''History of the American Negro and His Institutions'' (A. B. Caldwell Publishing 1921): 620-624.</ref>
==Career==
Jackson taught school in Athens, after college. She was also a school principal in [[Orlando, Florida]] for four years.<ref name="Crogman" /> From 1896 to 1916, Mary Jackson was associate principal at [[Haines Normal and Industrial Institute]] in [[Augusta, Georgia]], working closely with the school's founder [[Lucy Craft Laney]].<ref>[http://ift.tt/2EO3nHz "The Dark Vestal Virgin: Lucy Craft Laney"] ''The Weekly Challenger'' (September 29, 2016).</ref><ref>Audrey Thomas McCluskey, [http://ift.tt/2CGT5Dh ''A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South''] (Rowman & Littlefield 2014): 43-44. </ref> She wrote a profile of Lucy Craft Laney for ''The Crisis'' in 1934.<ref>Mary Jackson McCrorey, [http://ift.tt/2F2is7K "Lucy Laney"] ''The Crisis'' (June 1934): 161.</ref>
Jackson served as president of the Baptist Division of Missions for Colored People, and founded one of the first YWCAs in the American South. She was an officer of the International Council of Women of the Darker Races.<ref>Bettye Collier-Thomas, [http://ift.tt/2CGniT2 ''Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion''] (Knopf Doubleday Publishing 2010): 615, note 329. </ref> She was part of a network of Southern black women at universities who were also involved with the YWCA and the [[National Association of Colored Women's Clubs]] (NACW), including [[Juliette Derricotte]], [[Jennie B. Moton]], [[Margaret Murray Washington]], and [[Nettie Langston Napier]].<ref>Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, [http://ift.tt/2F2sohz ''Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching''] (Columbia University Press 1993): 317, note 66. </ref>
==Personal life==
Mary C. Jackson married Henry Lawrence McCrorey, a widower and the president of [[Johnson C. Smith University]], in 1916.
==References==
==External links==
* [http://ift.tt/2CFYVEU Mary Jackson McCrorey's gravesite] on Find a Grave.
* [http://ift.tt/2F0jDED Program from Mary Jackson McCrorey's funeral service (January 16, 1944)], from Digital Smith, Johnson C. Smith University.
[[Category:1867 births]]
[[Category:1944 deaths]]
[[Category:American educators]]
[[Category:People from Athens, Georgia]]
'''Mary Jackson McCrorey''' (November 9, 1867 – January 13, 1944) was an American educator, mission worker, and leader in the [[Young Women's Christian Association]] (YWCA).
==Early life==
Mary C. Jackson was born in [[Athens, Georgia]], the daughter of Alfred Jackson and Louisa Terrell Jackson. She was the Jacksons' eighth child and their first free-born child, born after the end of the [[American Civil War]] and Emancipation. Mary C. Jackson attended [[Atlanta University]].<ref name="Crogman">W. H. Crogman, [http://ift.tt/2CFHhRQ "Mary Jackson McCrorey"] in Arthur Bunyan Caldwell, ed. ''History of the American Negro and His Institutions'' (A. B. Caldwell Publishing 1921): 620-624.</ref>
==Career==
Jackson taught school in Athens, after college. She was also a school principal in [[Orlando, Florida]] for four years.<ref name="Crogman" /> From 1896 to 1916, Mary Jackson was associate principal at [[Haines Normal and Industrial Institute]] in [[Augusta, Georgia]], working closely with the school's founder [[Lucy Craft Laney]].<ref>[http://ift.tt/2EO3nHz "The Dark Vestal Virgin: Lucy Craft Laney"] ''The Weekly Challenger'' (September 29, 2016).</ref><ref>Audrey Thomas McCluskey, [http://ift.tt/2CGT5Dh ''A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South''] (Rowman & Littlefield 2014): 43-44. </ref> She wrote a profile of Lucy Craft Laney for ''The Crisis'' in 1934.<ref>Mary Jackson McCrorey, [http://ift.tt/2F2is7K "Lucy Laney"] ''The Crisis'' (June 1934): 161.</ref>
Jackson served as president of the Baptist Division of Missions for Colored People, and founded one of the first YWCAs in the American South. She was an officer of the International Council of Women of the Darker Races.<ref>Bettye Collier-Thomas, [http://ift.tt/2CGniT2 ''Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion''] (Knopf Doubleday Publishing 2010): 615, note 329. </ref> She was part of a network of Southern black women at universities who were also involved with the YWCA and the [[National Association of Colored Women's Clubs]] (NACW), including [[Juliette Derricotte]], [[Jennie B. Moton]], [[Margaret Murray Washington]], and [[Nettie Langston Napier]].<ref>Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, [http://ift.tt/2F2sohz ''Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching''] (Columbia University Press 1993): 317, note 66. </ref>
==Personal life==
Mary C. Jackson married Henry Lawrence McCrorey, a widower and the president of [[Johnson C. Smith University]], in 1916.
==References==
==External links==
* [http://ift.tt/2CFYVEU Mary Jackson McCrorey's gravesite] on Find a Grave.
* [http://ift.tt/2F0jDED Program from Mary Jackson McCrorey's funeral service (January 16, 1944)], from Digital Smith, Johnson C. Smith University.
[[Category:1867 births]]
[[Category:1944 deaths]]
[[Category:American educators]]
[[Category:People from Athens, Georgia]]
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