Florence "Frankie" Adams

Florence V. "Frankie" Adams (1902  – 1979) was an American educator and author. She had a long career at the Atlanta School of Social Work spanning 1931 through 1964. She is known for her social activism and as the author of Soulcraft: Sketches on Negro-White Relations Designed to Encourage Friendship and The Reflections of Florence Victoria Adams.[1]

Florence V. "Frankie" Adams
Born
Florence Victoria Adams

(1902-07-09)July 9, 1902
Danville, Kentucky
DiedAugust 29, 1979(1979-08-29) (aged 77)
Atlanta, Georgia
NationalityAmerican
Alma materKnoxville College, New York University
OccupationEducator, Author, Social Worker

Biography

Florence Adams was born in Danville, Kentucky on July 9, 1902. In 1925 she graduated from Knoxville College.[2][1] In 1939 she obtained her master's degree in education from New York University.[1]

In 1931 Adams joined the faculty of the Atlanta School of Social Work. Adams influenced the curriculum and content of group work on a nation level as a member of the Committee on Group Work of the American Association of Social Work.[1]

In 1964 Adams retired from the Atlanta School of Social Work, now called Atlanta University.[3]

From 1965 to 1967 Adams worked for Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc. and from 1968 through 1970 she worked with Project Head Start.[1]

Adams died on August 29, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia.[1]

Publications
  • Women in Industry (1929)
  • Soulcraft: Sketches on Negro-White Relations Designed to Encourage Friendship (1944)
  • Some Pioneers in Social Work: brief sketches; student work book, with Whitney Young, Jr. (1957)
  • The Reflections of Florence Victoria Adams, a history of the Atlanta University School of Social Work (published posthumously in 1981)

References
  1. "Frankie V. Adams collection". Archives Research Center. Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  2. "Adams, Florence V. "Frankie". Notable Kentucky African Americans Database. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  3. "Frankie Adams". Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976–1981. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
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