Hallie E. Queen

Hallie Elvera Queen (1880s – October 9, 1940), later Hallie Queen Jackson, was an American writer, journalist, and educator. She taught English in Puerto Rico, and was on the faculty of Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.

This article is about an African-American educator and writer sometimes known as Hallie Queen Jackson. For a similarly named African-American educator and writer, see Hallie Quinn Brown.
Hallie E. Queen
A young woman wearing a Red Cross nurse's uniform, from 1918.
Hallie E. Queen in Red Cross nurse's uniform, from the Howard University yearbook, 1918.
Born
Hallie Elvera Queen

Washington, D.C.
DiedOctober 9, 1940
Other namesHallie Q. Jackson (after second marriage)

Early life and education

Queen graduated from M Street High School in Washington, D.C. in 1904,[1][2] then attended Cornell University, graduating in the class of 1908.[3][4] She earned a master's degree in Spanish at Stanford University in 1925.[5][6]

Career

After college, Queen taught nature study at Tuskegee Institute,[7] English in Puerto Rico,[8][9] and English and Spanish in Virginia.[10] In 1915, she supervised the summer school at the State College for Colored Students in Dover, Delaware.[11] She was on the faculty at Dunbar High School in the 1920s and 1930s.[12][13] During World War I, she chaired the American Red Cross auxiliary at Howard University; she held sewing events[14] and organized student entertainment for black soldiers stationed at Fort Meade.[15]

Queen was a relief worker in the aftermath of the East St. Louis riots in 1917,[6] and testified about what she saw there, at a Congressional hearing.[16] Around that time, she gave intelligence to the Military Intelligence Section of the War Department, on fellow black activists.[17][18][19] She used her language skills as an interpreter for Latin American diplomatic gatherings in Washington.[20] In 1928 she attended the American Council Institute of Pacific Relations meeting in New York City.[21] In 1932, she successfully protested the wording of a railroad line's advertisements.[13]

Queen corresponded with W. E. B. DuBois[22] and Anson Phelps Stokes.[23] She wrote for The Crisis,[24] and the New York Age.[25][26] She also wrote plays, including The Last Days of Pompeii and The Two Orphans.[27]

Personal life

Queen was a member of the Baha'i faith.[9] She married Levi Thurman Anderson; they divorced in 1919.[28] She married a second time, to Roosevelt L. Jackson, by 1929.[29] She died in October 1940.[6][30]

References
  1. "At the Colored High School". The Colored American. 1901-02-16. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-02-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "List of Promotions". Evening Star. 1903-06-17. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-02-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Hallie E. Queen". Cornell University Library Digital Collections. 1908. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  4. "Hallie Queen yearbook entry". Cornell University Library Digital Collections. 1908. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  5. "Porto Rican Student Describes Life and Customs on Island". Stanford Daily. May 25, 1923. p. 2. Retrieved February 12, 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  6. "Death Takes Hallie E. Queen, Noted Teacher". Chicago Defender. October 19, 1940. p. 5 – via ProQuest.
  7. "August 16, 1908--25 Years Ago". The Ithaca Journal. 1933-08-16. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-02-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. Queen, Hallie E.; Cornell, A. B. (October 1920). "Some Problems of the American Teacher in Our Spanish Speaking Possessions". Journal of Education. 92 (14): 377–378. doi:10.1177/002205742009201403. ISSN 0022-0574. S2CID 186268348.
  9. Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn; Thomas, Richard; Thomas, Richard Walter (2006). Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Bahá'ís in North America, 1898-2004. Baha'i Publishing Trust. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-931847-26-1.
  10. Education, Virginia State Board of (1913). Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Division of Purchase and Printing. p. 340.
  11. "Colored Students' Summer School". The News Journal. April 6, 1915. p. 3. Retrieved February 11, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Dunbar French Club Hears Dr. Brewer". Evening Star. 1926-11-21. p. 22. Retrieved 2020-02-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Deletes Objectionable Phrase". Baltimore Afro American. June 11, 1932. p. 7. Retrieved February 12, 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  14. "Untitled news item". Evening Star. 1917-05-04. p. 10. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  15. "In the Service of Our Country" Howard Academy Yearbook (1918): 23.
  16. Brown, Mary Jane (2017-09-25). Eradicating this Evil: Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-71253-1.
  17. Johnson, W. R. (1999)."Black american radicalism and the first world war: The secret files of the military intelligence division" Armed Forces and Society, 26(1), 27-53.
  18. "Hallie E. Queen to C, MIS. Re: Dunbar High School". Fold3 (from the National Archives, NARA M1440). February 13, 1918. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  19. Ellis, Mark (2001-07-26). Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I. Indiana University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-253-10932-3.
  20. "Interesting News Concerning the Race". The Denver Star. 1914-10-03. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-02-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. "Manhattan Personals". The New York Age. 1928-10-20. p. 10. Retrieved 2020-02-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. "Letter from Hallie E. Queen to W. E. B. Du Bois, ca. February 20, 1929". Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  23. "Letter from Hallie E. Queen to Anson Phelps Stokes". Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. June 16, 1936. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  24. Queen, Hallie E. (November 1916). "The Colored Citizen of Puerto Rico". The Crisis: 13–14.
  25. Queen Jackson, Hallie (1929-08-31). "Congressman De Priest Tells Harlem Voters that Negro Leadership in the 19th A. D. Should Not be Begged". The New York Age. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-02-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. Queen Jackson, Hallie (1930-12-06). "Washington D. C." The New York Age. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  27. "Miss Hallie E. Queen to Visit Nashville". The Nashville Globe. 1907-08-09. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-02-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. "Sues Teacher for Divorce". The Washington Times. 1919-06-16. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-02-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. "Untitled news item". The New York Age. 1929-03-16. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  30. "Miss Queen, D.C. Teacher, Buried". The Chicago Defender. October 19, 1940. p. 8 – via ProQuest.
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