Iris Winnifred King

Iris Winnifred King née Ewart (1910–2000), was born in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, on September 5, 1910. She attended the Kingston Technical High School[1] in Kingston and later the Roosevelt University in Chicago where she studied political science and public administration from 1951-'53.[2]

Iris Winnifred King
Iris Winnifred King
Born1910 (1910)
Kingston, Jamaica
Died2000 (2001) (aged 90)
New York City, USA
OccupationFirst Black female Mayor, 1958

In 1958–1959 she served as a mayor of Kingston and was the first woman in that function.

References

  1. "Kinsgton Technical High School". Archived from the original on June 7, 2009. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  2. Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. ISSN 0021-5996.
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