Lillian Skinker Malone
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Lillian Skinker Malone | |
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 Lillian R. Skinker (later Malone), from the 1922 Howard University yearbook for professional schools | |
| Born | April 24, 1891 Caroline County, Virginia |
| Died | July 22, 1992 (age 101) Washington, D.C. |
| Relatives | Wesley A. Brown (son-in-law) |
Lillian R. Skinker Malone (April 24, 1891[1] – July 22, 1992) was an American educator based in Washington, D.C.
Lillian Rose Skinker was born in Caroline County, Virginia, and raised in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Beckley Merriman Skinker and Rose (or Rosa) Allen Skinker. Her father was white, and her mother was Black. She had two brothers, Edward and Stanley, and three sisters, Ethel, Stella, and Laura.[2]
She attended M Street High School and trained as a teacher at Miner Normal School. In 1919 she completed a bachelor's degree in education at Howard University; she earned a law degree at Howard's law school in 1922.[3] She earned a master's degree from Howard in 1934,[4] with a thesis titled "A study of the rate of adjustment in migrant students to the elementary schools of the District of Columbia at the several grade levels as measured by scores made on standardized reading tests" (1934).[5][6]
Sorority activities
She was a member of the Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta,[3][4] and in 1918 helped establish the Gamma chapter at the University of Pennsylvania, with Sadie Tanner Mossell, Virginia Alexander, and Pauline Young among its first members.[7] She also helped to organize Epsilon Sigma Iota, a sorority for Black women in the legal profession.[8] In 1946, her daughter was accepted as a pledge in the Alpha Xi Delta sorority at the University of Vermont; because she was Black, the sorority chapter was put in probation, with the explanation that "we have so many Southern chapters, you know."[9][10]