Blanche Armwood

Blanche Armwood
A Black woman with her hair dressed low to the nape, covering her ears
Blanche Armwood Perkins from a 1916 flier
Born
Blanche Mae Armwood

January 23, 1890
Tampa, Florida
DiedOctober 16, 1939
Medford, Massachusetts
Occupation(s)Educator, activist

Blanche Mae Armwood (1890–1939), educator, activist and the first African-American woman in the state of Florida to graduate from an accredited law school. Armwood was also the first Executive Secretary of the Tampa Urban League and a founder of five Household Industrial Arts Schools for African-American women in five different states. Armwood High School in Seffner, Florida is named in her honor.[1][2]

  1. ^ Halderman, Keith (1996). "Blanche Armwood of Tampa and the Strategy of Interracial Cooperation". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 74 (3): 287–303. JSTOR 30148848.
  2. ^ "Tampa Native, Blanche Armwood". Tampa Pix.