Flemmie kittrell biography
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell (December 25, – October 3, ) was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D....
Kittrell, Flemmie (1904–1980)
African-American educator and nutritionist. Born Flemmie Pansy Kittrell on December 25, 1904, in Henderson, North Carolina; died on October 3, 1980, in Washington, D.C.; seventh of nine children and youngest daughter of James Lee Kittrell and Alice (Mills) Kittrell; attended public school in Vance County, North Carolina; Hampton Institute, B.S., 1928; Cornell University, M.A., 1930, Ph.D., 1938; never married; no children.
Devoting her career to improving family welfare around the world, Flemmie Kittrell headed up the home economics department at Howard University for nearly 30 years, during which time she also conducted studies of nutrition problems in Liberia and India and established training programs in nutrition and child care for women in India and Zaire (now Republic of Congo).
One of nine children of parents of Cherokee Indian and African-American heritage, Kittrell was born in Henderson, North Carolina, in 1904, and grew up in a happy a