Bernice Dutrieuille Shelton papers
Bernice Dutrieuille Shelton was born in Philadelphia. She was among the earliest African-American graduates of Girls' High, and became a journalist in the early 1920s. Shelton contributed regular features on social news and columns on other subjects to area African-American newspapers, includ...
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Collection: | Bernice Dutrieuille Shelton Papers |
Collection Number: | MSS131 |
Format: | Manuscript |
Language: | English |
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Bernice Dutrieuille Shelton was born in Philadelphia. She was among the earliest African-American graduates of Girls' High, and became a journalist in the early 1920s. Shelton contributed regular features on social news and columns on other subjects to area African-American newspapers, including the Philadelphia Tribune and the Baltimore Afro-American,serving as both special correspondent and advertising representative for the Afro-American. She was active in a number of civic organizations including the YWCA, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs. The collection contains personal and professional correspondence and related materials, drafts and clippings of many of Shelton's columns, drafts of a history of the Dutrieuille family written by Shelton, miscellaneous writings and printed materials, and uncataloged photographs. In English.
Addendum: ree 10/25/05 This folder was removed from the unprocessed Special Print Collection and returned to MSS 131. It includes items from the Y.W.C.A. of Philadelphia, a pamphlet from the The New York Public Library on their African American holdings, a dance program from Lincoln University, and literature from the Stephen Smith Home for the Aged in Philadelphia. It is circa 1928-1969. There are twelve items in this addendum. It is labeled Bernice D. Shelton: Addendum. |