Gladys Avery Tillett
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March 19, 1891
Gladys Avery Tillett | |
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 Gladys Avery Tillett, first from the right, with Bess Truman and various women Democratic Party leaders, ca. 1950. | |
| Born | Gladys Love Avery March 19, 1891 |
| Died | September 21, 1984 (aged 93) |
| Education | North Carolina College for Women |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina |
| Known for | US representative on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Charles Walter Tillett Jr. |
Gladys Love Avery Tillett (March 19, 1891 – September 21, 1984) was an American political organizer and activist, based in North Carolina. She supported women's suffrage when she was a college student, and was working for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in her eighties.[1]
Gladys Love Avery was born in Morganton, North Carolina, the daughter of Alphonso Calhoun Avery and his second wife, Sarah Love Thomas Avery. Her father, a judge, had served as an officer in the Confederate army during the American Civil War, and in the North Carolina legislature after the war. Her uncle Isaac E. Avery died at the Battle of Gettysburg;[2] two other uncles, William Waightstill Avery and Clark Moulton Avery, also died during the war. One of her grandfathers was William Holland Thomas, and one of her great-grandfathers was Waightstill Avery.[3]
Gladys Avery attended the North Carolina College for Women, where suffragist Harriet Elliott was one of her professors, and earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of North Carolina in 1917.[4]
