Elizabeth Tate
Civil rights advocate during the American Civil Rights Movement
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Elizabeth Crawford ("Bettye") Tate (June 22, 1906 – September 11, 1999) was a civil rights advocate during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s that desegregated African-Americans across the United States of America.
Biography
Elizabeth (Bettye)Crawford Tate was born in Fairfield, Iowa, in 1906.[1]https://share.google/9GUjK2UgKzGmxY5n2 Tate graduated from Fairfield High School, Iowa, in 1926. Tate worked at the cardiovascular lab at the University of Iowa hospital; she retired in 1976.[2]
In 1938 Tate bought a house for $3,300[3] that would later[4] become a boarding house in Iowa City for African-American students who were not allowed to use the normal university accommodation.[5][6] In the house Tate did the cooking while the boys staying at the house cleaned up.[3] The house, Tate Arms,[7] was named an historic landmark in 2014[8] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.[9] Tate Arms started housing black students in 1938,[8] and created a "home away from home" for the people who lived there.[10] Tate sold the building in 1979.[11]
Honors
In 2005, Iowa City named its alternative high school, Tate High School, in honor of Tate.[11]
