Kathleen Redding Adams

Kathleen Redding Adams (1890 – 1993) was a teacher both in Atlanta Public Schools and at the Carrie Steele Pitts Home, which was a home for orphans, as well as a prominent member of the First Congregational Church in Atlanta.[1]

Biography

Kathleen Redding Adams was born on July 11, 1890, to parents Ellen and Wesley Chapel Redding, and was the eldest of four children.[2] The Reddings were a prominent Black family in Atlanta.[2] As a child, Kathleen Redding lived on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, a prosperous black neighborhood, and attended public school.[2]

Kathleen Redding Adams went on to attend Atlanta University in 1906, where she studied under W.E.B. DuBois and George A. Towns.[2] She graduated from Atlanta University in 1911.[3] After her graduation, Kathleen Redding taught at the Roach Street School in Atlanta for twelve years, and then left her public school teaching career to marry William D. Adams, a railway postal clerk.[2] They divorced in 1935, and Kathleen Redding Adams returned to her work as a public school teacher, this time in the Fulton County School District, for seventeen more years.[2] It was during this time that she taught at the Carrie Steele Pitts Home for the care of orphans. She retired in 1957.[2]

Adams preserved the history of her family through documents and memorabilia.[1] She sometimes loaned these materials to the City of Atlanta for display, and made tapes about the history of the public schools in Atlanta.[2] As a hobby, Adams wrote "verses" to describe people and events, and some of which were published in Atlanta World. As of 1977, she was the oldest active member of the First Congregational Church in Atlanta and acted as the Church Historian during the time that Henry H. Proctor was minister of the church.[1][2][4]

Further reading

Kathleen Redding Adams, “The Involvement of 1st Congregational Church, Atlanta in Angola—The Atlanta Interracial Commission—Carrie Steele Orphanage—Carrie Steele-Pitts Home as of 1938,” October 1975, unpublished manuscript, Proctor Papers. Amistad Research Center.[5]

References
  1. "Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976–1981: Biographies". Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America research Guides. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  2. "Kathleen Adams. Transcript". HOLLIS for Archival Discovery. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  3. McDaniel, M Akua (Spring 1984). "Finding A Way: The Black Family's Struggle for An Education at The Atlanta University Center - An Exhibition". Sage. 1 (1): 23. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  4. Rodney, Lester Joseph (1 May 1992). Henry Hugh Proctor: the Atlanta Years, 1894-1920 (PDF). ETD Collection for AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library. p. 50. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  5. Moore, Moises N. "The Prophetic Ministry of Henry H. Proctor | Reflections". Yale University Reflections. Yale Divinity School. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
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