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Anita Hemmings Love (development)

Primary and secondary education

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  • Two years: Hemmings graduated from the Prince Grammar School (namesake of Frederick O. Prince, Boston mayor), corner of Exeter and Newbury Streets, Boston, in 1888, first in her class (enrolled as an African American) (
  • Four years: English High School for Girls (enrolled as an African American)
  • Dr. Dwight L. Moody's at Northfield, with the help of a benefactor from Trinity Church. (enrolled as a white). Her roommate, Bessie Baker was enrolled as an African American.
  • Vassar

Vassar

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In 1897, when the very light-skinned Anita Hemmings graduated from Vassar College, she announced that she was an African American. The college administration, which had an unwritten rule of not admitting black students, expressed outrage at the deception.[1][2][3]

Family

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According to Jillian Sim, the great-granddaughter of Anita Hemmings, Anita Florence Hemmings was related to the Hemings slave family of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. They are descended from a sibling of Sally.[4]

Anita's great grandfather, Peter Hemings (1770–1835) was a brother of Sally Hemings (1773–1835).

Whereabouts of Fred Hemmings in 1944

Marriage

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Hemmings married Andrew Love, MD (né Andrew Jackson Love; 1861–1948),[a] on October 20, 1903, in Boston at Trinity Church. Fr. Charles Neale Field, S.S.J.E. (1849–1929) performed the ceremony. He was pastor of the Church of St. Augustine (Episcopal), Phillips Street in the West End. Anita and Andrew's marriage license indicates their race as African American.

Rev. Field also, in 1896, performed the ceremony for the marriage of Elizabeth Baker and William Henry Lewis – Anita was maid of honor.

Addresses

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Andrew J. Love, Sr.

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1896: Tennessee – 302 (302 is the code for Meharry Medical Department, Central Tennessee College; see p. 127); '90[5]

Anita

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1910: Love Andw J physician       3440 Broadway, Manhattan; (home) 563 West 140th Street, Manhattan (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1910, via Ancestry.com)
1913: Love Andrew J physician       3440 Broadway, Manhattan (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1913, via Ancestry.com)
1915: Love Andrew J       3440 Broadway, Manhattan (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1915, via Ancestry.com)
1922: Love, Andrew J       114–116 East 54th Street, Manhattan[6]
1925: Love Andrew J phys       114 East 54th Street, Manhattan; (home) 180 Riverside Drive (at West 90th Street), Manhattan (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1925, via Ancestry.com)
1918: Love Andrew J phys       521 West 142nd Street, Manhattan (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1918, via Ancestry.com)
1945: Love Andrew J MD       1410 York Avenue, Manhattan BU ttrfld 8-6854 (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1945, via Ancestry.com)
1957: Love Andrew J Sr Mrs       1410 York Avenue, Manhattan BUtrfld 8-6854 (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1957, via Ancestry.com)
1960: Love Andrew J Sr Mrs       1410 York Avenue, Manhattan BU trfld 8-6854 (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1960, via Ancestry.com)

Andy, Jr.

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1933: Love Andrew J       114 East 54th Street, R500 Manhattan (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1933, via Ancestry.com)
1942: Love Andrew J Jr       1410 York Avenue, Manhattan RE gent 7-2025 (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1942, via Ancestry.com)
1946: Love Andrew J Jr       525 East 89th Street, Manhattan SA crmnto 2-4040 (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1946, via Ancestry.com)
1948: Love Andrew J Jr       525 East 89th Street, Manhattan SA crmnto 2-4040 (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1948, via Ancestry.com)
1948: Love Andrew J Jr advtg       116 East 56th Street, Manhattan PLaza 8-3014 (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1948, via Ancestry.com)
1957: Love Andrew J Jr advtg       15 West 44th Street, Manhattan OXfrd 7-7592 (Manhattan, New York, City Directory, 1957, via Ancestry.com)

Race identity

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1915 New York Census: White
  1. Andrew J Love 53
  2. Anita F Love 42
  3. Ellen Parker Love 9
  4. Barbara Love 8
  5. Andrew J Love 4
1920 US Census: White, 521 West 142nd Street, Manhattan, New York (rented)
  1. Andrew J Love 57
  2. Anita H Love 47
  3. Ellen P Love 14
  4. Barbara Love 12
  5. Andrew J Love 8
1925 New York Census: White, 180 Riverside Drive (rented)
  1. Andrew Love 67
  2. Anita H Love 52
  3. Ellen R Love 17
  4. Barbara Love 18
  5. Andrew Love 14
1930 US Census: White, 179 Riverside Drive (rented)
  1. Andrew J Love 68
  2. Annita Love 57
  3. Ellen Parker Love 24
  4. Barbara Love 22 (student at Columbia)
  5. Andrew Love 18

Ellen Parker Love

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Ellen Love, also attended Vassar, graduating in 1927. On Ellen Love's application she claimed that she was white and the college never realized until many years later that Love was Hemmings' daughter or that she had an African-American heritage.[7]

Death

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Anita J. Love died October 25, 1960, in Manhattan, New York. She had been living in Murray Hill. A private service was held October 28, 1960, at St. James the Less (Episcopal) in Scarsdale.[8]

Reference

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  1. ^ "Vassar College was 'all torn up' ... ," The Appeal, August 28, 1897, p. 2 (accessible via Newspapers.com, subscription required)
  2. ^ "The Role of Rhetoric in the Attack of Affirmative Action," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 15, Spring 1997, pps. 62–63; OCLC 5545585686, 7493623025; ISSN 1077-3711 (accessible via JSTOR at www.jstor.org/stable/2962696)
  3. ^ "Passing as White: Anita Hemmings 1897," by Olivia Mancini, Vassar (Alumnae quarterly), Vol. 98, No. 1, Winter 2001
    Reprint: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 34, Winter 2001–2002), pps. 108–109 (accessible via JSTOR at www.jstor.org/stable/3134138)
  4. ^ "Letters" (responses by the editors), Harold Frank (responding editor), Retired professor and dean University of Pennsylvania, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 36, Summer 2002, pps. 62–63; ISSN 1077-3711 (accessible via JSTOR at www.jstor.org/stable/3133898)
  5. ^ Medical and Surgical Register of the United States (4th ed., rev.), R.L. Polk & Co. (1896); "Love, Andrew J.," p. 1385
  6. ^ "New Doctors Building" New York Times, May 22, 1921, p. 102 (NY Times, subscription required)
  7. ^ "The Earliest Black Graduates of the Nation's Highest-Ranked Liberal Arts Colleges," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 38, Winter 2002–2003, pps. 104–109; OCLC 5545585686, 7493623025; ISSN 1077-3711 (accessible via JSTOR at www.jstor.org/stable/3134222)
  8. ^ "Deaths: Love – Anita H.," New York Times, October 27, 1960, p. L37 (col. 7 of 8) (NY Times, subscription required)


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