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Marion Cuthbert's work highly reflects today's world we live in because she wrote about many struggles Negro Women had to Endure, she was an influential writer and it is relevant today because her work was an inspiration to Negro women to realize they had rights as women to get an education and pursue their goals in life.

Her work

In Marion Cuthbert's dissertation Problems facing young negro women published by Opportunity in 1936, writes about the problems women faced with their husbands or other negro men. Marion also writes about how receiving education as a black woman also affects the whole family. Women who are young and unmarried and uneducated care for a whole family group alone.

"There is a subtle deference on the part of Negro men to their women......". "...but it is a deference of a comradeship and tribute to a great courage. Too many black men owe part or all of what they are to the toil of mothers; too many young unmarried women gallantly carry on for a whole family group."

Contributions

Marion is known to have made many Contributions to National Organizations associated and concerned with social and racial justice, human rights, and lastly world peace. She was on the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.(NAACP). Marion was also apart of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education

Impact

Achievements

Marion Cuthbert had a very large impact on Black higher education and became one of the very few professors and the first African American woman to become a dean at Brooklyn College. Marion strived for good education.

Marion received a Masters in Psychology and PhD at Columbia University. She wrote many children's books, poems, and dissertations. She was very involved locally at Plainfeild Library, the College Women's Club, and the Community Baptist Church. She loved teaching and taught as an English teacher and later became the principle at Burrell Normal School, a private school for African Americans in Florence, Alabama.

Works

Her work expressed her study of the effects of education on the lives of African American women.

Marion conducted a comparative survey study of the experiences of black females who attained a college degree against those who never attended. This is expressed in her book,"Education and Marginality: A Study of the Negro College Graduate"

Education

Marion attended Central High School in her Hometown of St. Paul Minnesota. Marion always wanted to srive for college education so she studied at University of Minnesota then transferred to Boston University. She received her Bachelors Degree from Boston University in 1920, Then later received her Masters Degree and PhD at Columbia University.

Marion Cuthbert

Marion Cuthbert was born in St. Paul Minnesota. She was the daughter of Thomas Cornelius Cuthbert and Victoria Means. Marion was a writer and intellectual associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

March 15,1896- May 5,1989

Marion Vera Cuthbert

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