Florence "Frankie" Adams
{{short description|American educator, social worker, and author (1902-1979)}}
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| birth_name = Florence Victoria Adams
| birth_date = {{birth date|1902|7|9|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Danville, Kentucky
| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|8|29|1902|7|9|mf=y}}
| death_place = Atlanta, Georgia
| nationality = American
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| alma_mater = Knoxville College, New York University
| occupation = Educator, Author, Social Worker
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Florence V. "Frankie" Adams (1902–1979) was an American educator and writer. 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.{{cite web|title=Frankie V. Adams collection|url=http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:009
|website=Archives Research Center. |publisher=Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library|hdl=20.500.12322/fa:009
| accessdate=16 September 2019}}
Biography
Florence Victoria Adams was born in Danville, Kentucky, on July 9, 1902. In 1925, she graduated from Knoxville College.{{cite web|title=Adams, Florence V. "Frankie|url=http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/1223|website=Notable Kentucky African Americans Database|accessdate=February 7, 2018}} In 1939, she obtained her master's degree in education from New York University.
In 1931, Adams joined the faculty of the Atlanta School of Social Work. She influenced the curriculum and content of group work on a national level as a member of the Committee on Group Work of the American Association of Social Work.
In 1964, Adams retired from the Atlanta School of Social Work, now called Atlanta University.{{cite web|title=Frankie Adams|url=https://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_bwohp/biographies#s-lg-box-wrapper-7438741#albrier|website=Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976–1981|publisher=Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America|accessdate=February 7, 2018}}
From 1965 to 1967, she worked for Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc. and from 1968 through 1970 she worked with Project Head Start.
Adams died on August 29, 1979, aged 77, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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
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External links
- [https://books.google.com/books/about/Soulcraft.html?id=DghUAAAAYAAJ Soulcraft: Sketches on Negro-White Relations Designed to Encourage Friendship]
- [https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/archival_objects/2485399 Frankie Adams Interview Transcript, 1976-1981] OH-31; T-32. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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Category:20th-century African-American educators
Category:20th-century American educators
Category:Educators from Kentucky
Category:African-American activists
Category:Writers from Danville, Kentucky
Category:American women educators
Category:Activists from Kentucky
Category:Black Women Oral History Project
Category:20th-century African-American women writers