Nellie Blythe Nicholson Taylor (July 22, 1888 – December 20, 1965) was an African-American suffragist and educator. [1]
Nicholson was a clubwoman, co-founding a local Delaware affiliate, the Women's College Club of Delaware, with Sadie L. Jones. [1] She was a founding member of the Zeta Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. [2] She was also a founding member of the Equal Suffrage Study Club, founded in 1914. [1] The group was organized to study and advocate for Black women's voting rights; they marched as a separate unit in Wilmington's first suffrage parade in 1914. [1] After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the group organized to encourage African-American women to register and to vote. [1] Members of the club assisted in supporting the founding of a Wilmington chapter of the NAACP in 1915 and Nicholson was the first press relations staffer. [1]
Nicholson was born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 22, 1888, to George W. and Charlotte Nicholson. [1] Her father served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War. [1] Her mother was a skilled seamstress and dressmaker. Nicholson went to Baltimore Colored Training School for high school and Pembroke College in Brown University for college, receiving a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1911. [1] [3] After a few years teaching, she later attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a master's degree in Mathematics Education in 1931. [1] She married William H. Taylor in 1928; he was a widower with three children. [1] [4] She is buried in Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania.
Nellie Blythe Nicholson Taylor (July 22, 1888 – December 20, 1965) was an African-American suffragist and educator. [1]
Nicholson was a clubwoman, co-founding a local Delaware affiliate, the Women's College Club of Delaware, with Sadie L. Jones. [1] She was a founding member of the Zeta Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. [2] She was also a founding member of the Equal Suffrage Study Club, founded in 1914. [1] The group was organized to study and advocate for Black women's voting rights; they marched as a separate unit in Wilmington's first suffrage parade in 1914. [1] After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the group organized to encourage African-American women to register and to vote. [1] Members of the club assisted in supporting the founding of a Wilmington chapter of the NAACP in 1915 and Nicholson was the first press relations staffer. [1]
Nicholson was born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 22, 1888, to George W. and Charlotte Nicholson. [1] Her father served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War. [1] Her mother was a skilled seamstress and dressmaker. Nicholson went to Baltimore Colored Training School for high school and Pembroke College in Brown University for college, receiving a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1911. [1] [3] After a few years teaching, she later attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a master's degree in Mathematics Education in 1931. [1] She married William H. Taylor in 1928; he was a widower with three children. [1] [4] She is buried in Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania.