"Lethia-Fleming" (November 7 1876-1963)

oShe was an African American campaign organizer,women's  and civil rifghts activist and politician.

Born in in Tazwell,Virginia to James Archibald & Fannie Taylor Cousins,Lethia was educated  in Ironton,Ohio and later at Morrisontown College,she returned to her home state where she was a suffragist and taught for twenty years,until her marriage to Thomas Wallace Fleming in 1912.After their marriage,the couple moved to to Cleveland,where her husband,a lawyer,would later become the city's first African-American councilman.

Only  two years afterthemove,Lethia  became the chairwoman of the Board of  Lady Managers at the Cleveland Home of  Aged Colored  People (later the Eliza Bryant Center)   and also part of of many national
organizations. She was a charter member of the Urban League of Greater Cleveland,the Traveler's Aid Society, and the NAACP (Cleveland Branch).An ardent supporter of the Phyllis Wheatley Association (PWA),
her fundraising efforts led to the purchase of the first PWA building.Lethia was most known for her politics,both locally and nationally,she was also a twenty-year employee of the Cuyahoga County Child Welfare Board where she worked following an unsuccessful bid for her husband's city council seat in 1929.She did not
win her husband's city council seat after his imprisonment,she was active in politics on a national and local level.

She worked on galvanizing support among African-American for three Republican presidential  candidates: Warren G.Harding,Herbert Hoover,
and Alfred M.Landon.She chaired the executive board of the National Association of  Colored  Women's Clubs and served as president of its Ohio federation.She served on the executive board for the National Association of Colored Women and the National Council,of  Negro Women,in addition to serving as presidet of the National Association of
Republican Women and executive director of the Republican Colored Women organization.Lethia died in 1963.