Chase, Eleanor Elizabeth Barrow
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Chase, Eleanor Elizabeth Barrow
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Eleanor Barrow Chase was a social worker and civil rights activist in Spokane, WA and the first Black trustee at Whitworth College.
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Eleanor Elizabeth Barrow Chase was a social worker and civil rights activist in Spokane, WA. Her grandfather Peter Barrow was an enslaved person who joined the Union army during the Civil War. After the war he served in the Mississippi state legislature, representing Vicksburg. Around 1890, Peter Barrow moved to Spokane and helped establish the town’s first Black church. Eleanor Barrow Chase grew up in Spokane and attended Lewis and Clark High School. She graduated magna cum laude from Whitworth University with a bachelor’s degree in music in 1941. She married James Everett Chase, who was president of the Spokane NAACP chapter throughout the 1960s and was later elected mayor of Spokane in 1981. Eleanor Barrow Chase was very active in the Spokane NAACP chapter, served on the Race Relations Council and Deaconess Medical Center Ethics Committee, and held the role of director of the Spokane Centennial Committee. Later in her life, Chase served on the Whitworth University Board of Trustees, the first Black trustee.
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December 21, 1918
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May 31, 2002
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Barrow_Chase
https://www.inlander.com/culture/remember-eleanor-barrow-chase-a-voice-who-championed-the-health-and-harmony-of-spokane-27042539
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/chase-eleanor-barrow-1918-2002/
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