Chase, Eleanor Elizabeth Barrow

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Advocate of the Civil Rights Movement
Name
Chase, Eleanor Elizabeth Barrow
One-line bio
Eleanor Barrow Chase was a social worker and civil rights activist in Spokane, WA and the first Black trustee at Whitworth College.
Biography
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.
Date of Birth
December 21, 1918
Date of Death
May 31, 2002
Historical Period
1945-1976: Era of Civil Rights Movement and resistance to Civil Rights Movement
1976-2000: The Conservative Ascendancy and Retrenchment from Civil Rights Movement
Wikidata Link
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62018354
Learn More About this Subject
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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