Emilie Bigelow Hapgood

Emilie Bigelow Hapgood (unknown-1930) was a theatrical producer in New York City, and was at one time the president of the Stage Society.[1][2] She founded the Circle of War Relief for Negro Soldiers in November 1917 during World War I, and led it for some time.[1][2] She herself was white.[3] She married Norman Hapgood in 1896; they were divorced in 1915.[2] Georgia Douglas Johnson wrote a poem titled "TO EMILIE BIGELOW HAPGOOD - PHILANTHROPIST", which Johnson included in Bronze: A Book of Verse, published in 1922.[4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 Theodore Roosevelt (22 April 2014). Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 361–. ISBN 978-0-345-80612-3.
  2. 1 2 3 "Mrs. Emilie Bigelow Hapgood Dies in Rome". Schenectady Gazette. Schenectady, New York. February 17, 1930. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  3. Nikki Brown (28 December 2006). Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal. Indiana University Press. pp. 37–. ISBN 0-253-11239-7.
  4. Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson (1922). Bronze: A Book of Verse. B. J. Brimmer Company. pp. 96–.
  5. Maureen Honey (2006). Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Rutgers University Press. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-0-8135-3886-0.
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