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Marion Vera Cuthbert
American poet
Marion Vera Cuthbert (1896 – 1989) was an American writer and intellectual associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Biography marion vera cuthbert
Early life
Cuthbert was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her bachelor's degree from Boston University in 1920. She subsequently became principal of Burrel Normal School, then Dean of Women at Talladega College.
In 1933, she delivered an address at the NAACP national convention entitled "Honesty in Race Relations."[1] Cuthbert later received her master's degree and Doctorate from Columbia University. Her dissertation, titled "Education and Marginality: A Study of the Negro College Graduate," was a sociological study of the effects of education on the lives of African-American women.
She published a volume of poetry, as well as essays in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life.[2]
Career
Cuthbert served as dean of women at Talladega College from 1927 to 1930, and from 1928 to 1931, she completed