Enolia McMillan (20 October 1904–24 October 2006)

Lee Sartain

doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1501403

Enolia McMillan (20 October 1904–24 October 2006)

Lee Sartain

School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics and Literature

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Abstract

McMillan, Enolia (20 October 1904–24 October 2006), educator and civil rights activist, was born Enolia Virginia Pettigan in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. She was the eldest of four children born to former slave John Pettigan and domestic worker Elizabeth Fortune. Her family moved to Cecil County, Maryland in 1912 after her father bought a small farm. She graduated from Baltimore’s Douglass High School in 1922. She was recipient of the first scholarship from the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and attended Howard University, a traditionally black college in Washington, D.C., and graduated with a bachelor of arts in education in 1927

Original language	English
Specialist publication	American National Biography
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1501403
Publication status	Published - 21 Oct 2015

Keywords

NAACP
Gender
Civil Rights

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10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1501403

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