E. Alice Taylor

{{Short description|African-American entrepreneur, teacher, and community organizer (1892–1986)}}

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| birth_place = Alexander, Arkansas

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| alma_mater = Arkansas Baptist College (1913)

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  • NAACP, Boston Branch (Vice President, board member )
  • Poro College branch (founder, owner)
  • Professional Hairdressers Association of Massachusetts (founder, President)

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  • Ebenezer Baptist Church{{Which|date=February 2018}} of Boston
  • Massachusetts State Union of Women's Clubs
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  • South End Neighborhood Action Program
  • Charitable Health Association of Massachusetts
  • Claremont Neighborhood Association
  • Howard University Mothers and Wives club
  • Massachusetts Human Relations Committee

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E. Alice Taylor (1892–January 1, 1986, age 94) was an African-American entrepreneur, teacher, and community organizer who was an officer and board member of the Boston, Massachusetts NAACP for 50 years. In 1927 she founded a branch of Annie Malone's Poro School and Beauty Shoppe, which she ran for 15 years, until it was closed at the start of World War II. The school had grown to become one of New England's largest minority-owned businesses, with a staff of 15 teaching 150 students each year. She was a member of numerous community service organizations.

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{{Citation |title= E. Alice Taylor, 94; NAACP Officer, South End Resource Half A Century [obituary] |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=January 3, 1986 |page= 41 }}

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  • {{Citation |title= Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 |first= Sarah |last= Deutsch |publisher= Oxford University Press |date= September 15, 2002 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZG3nCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA275 |page=275 |isbn= 9780195158649 }}
  • {{Citation |title= African-Americans in Boston : more than 350 years |date=January 3, 1986 |page= 41 |last= Hayden |first=Robert C. |publisher= Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston |url= https://archive.org/stream/africanamericans00hayd_0#page/22/mode/2up }}
  • {{Citation |title= The History of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc.: A Legacy of Service |first= LaVonne |last= Leslie |date=November 30, 2012 |page=268 |publisher= Xlibris |isbn= 9781479722655 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1PENu3w8PGMC&pg=PT268 }}

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