(she preferred the name Ann) was from Boston.She was the daughter of
the daughter of Alfred Grandison Weems Tanneyhill & Adelaide Grandison Tanneyhill.Ann graduated from Simmons College in 1928 and immediately joined the Springfield (Massachusetts) Urban League.A decade she would earn a master's degree vocational guidance and personnel administration from Teachers College,Columbia University;by then she was nearly a decade into a distinguished fifty-year career with the League.
Working out of our national headquarters in New York,Ann tireless energy,superb organizational skills,and expertise helped guide the League to path-breaking achiievements in forging employment opportunities for African-Americans in the century's middle decades.In
the 1930s she organized the League's nationwide annual vocational
opportunity campaigns to inspire African-American youth to pursue the schooling and training that would prepare them for good jobs. In the 1940s she was instrumental in integrating the workforces of defense plants.
Her commitment to African-American youth was extraordinary.In the late 1950s she played a pivotal role in carrying out the League's pioneering effort to persuade major corporations to recruit on Historic
Black College and University campuses.Ann wrote several articles including,From School to Job:Guidance for Minority Youth 1953,Program Aids,for the Vocational Opportunity Campaign and Whitney M.Young Jr.
"The Voice of the Voiceless."1977.
Ann who had lived for many years on her beloved Cape Cod,was known largely within the National Urban League Movement and a relatively small circle within African-American as one of the Twentieth century's
greatest civil rights heroes.
the 1930s she organized the League's nationwide annual vocational
opportunity campaigns to inspire African-American youth to pursue the schooling and training that would prepare them for good jobs. In the 1940s she was instrumental in integrating the workforces of defense plants.
Her commitment to African-American youth was extraordinary.In the late 1950s she played a pivotal role in carrying out the League's pioneering effort to persuade major corporations to recruit on Historic
Black College and University campuses.Ann wrote several articles including,From School to Job:Guidance for Minority Youth 1953,Program Aids,for the Vocational Opportunity Campaign and Whitney M.Young Jr.
"The Voice of the Voiceless."1977.
Ann who had lived for many years on her beloved Cape Cod,was known largely within the National Urban League Movement and a relatively small circle within African-American as one of the Twentieth century's
greatest civil rights heroes.
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