"Adella Hunt Logan"(1863-December 12,1915)

Was a black woman of mixed heritage raised in Sparta, Georgia in the 1860s.She was raised by a black mother who had eight children by a white farmer who served in the Confederacy.Her father did not live with the family,but provided for them financially and paid for her

education.Educated at the Bass Academy and then Atlanta University,She became the Tuskegee University first librarian.She met her husband,also a professor at Tuskegee,and gave birth to nine children.She suffered the loss of three of them before adulthood.Adella was a leader of women's suffrage, lecturing at major organizations like the National Association of Colored Women's conferences.She became a writer for the famous Crisis magazine and the NAACP.Adella made sure the Tuskegee library was stocked with women's rights information,and sessions were held.Her most famous work was an essay in 1902 called "What Are the Causes of the Great Mortality Among the Negroes of the Cities of the South,and how it is That Mortality to be Lessened?"By 1885,she had taken over as lady principal at Tuskegee when the first one, Oliva Davidson, married Booker T. Washington.By 1915,Adella was clearly suffering from depression.She was sent to Battle Creek Santiarium for treatment.Adella returned to Tuskegee after hearing Booker was sick.He died on November 14th,and Adella committed suicide on December 12th by Jumping from the top floor of campus building at Tuskegee.