Zonita Jeffreys Owens
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June 8, 1908
Zonita Jeffreys Owens | |
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 Zonita Stewart Jeffreys, from a 1926 yearbook | |
| Born | Zonita Stewart Jeffreys June 8, 1908 Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | April 1981 (aged 72) Chicago, Illinois |
| Occupations | Educator, Red Cross volunteer |
Zonita Stewart Jeffreys Owens (June 8, 1908 – April 1981) was an American educator in Chicago and Hawai'i, and an American Red Cross volunteer. As a young woman she was active in the YWCA.
Zonita Stewart Jeffreys was from Chicago, the daughter of Isham Jeffreys and Mary M. Jeffreys.[1] Her father was a chiropodist born in the British West Indies.[2] She trained as a teacher at Chicago Normal College[3] and in 1929 earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan.[4][5] She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.[6][7][8] She and her mother drove to Los Angeles in 1932, to be spectators at the Summer Olympics there.[9] In 1936, she earned a master's degree at University of Chicago, with a thesis on the Chicago press coverage of the early labor movement.[10]