Lena Beatrice Morton
{{Short description|American educator and literary scholar}}
Lena Beatrice Morton (1901 – January 10, 1981) was an American educator and literary scholar.
Early life
Lena Beatrice Morton was born in Flat Creek in Bath County, Kentucky, the daughter of Susie Morton and William Morton. Her family moved to Ohio so that she could attend secondary school.George C. Wright, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sOObecifof8C&dq=Lena+Beatrice+Morton&pg=PA122 A History of Blacks in Kentucky: In Pursuit of Equality, 1890-1980] (University Press of Kentucky 1992): 122. {{ISBN|9780916968212}} She attended the University of Cincinnati, where she was a founding member of the school's first black sorority.[http://nkaa.uky.edu/record.php?note_id=1887 "Lena B. Morton"] Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, University of Kentucky. She graduated in 1922.[https://books.google.com/books?id=TloEAAAAMBAJ&dq=woman&pg=PA108 "Negro Higher Education in 1921-1922"] The Crisis (July 1922): 108-109. She completed doctoral studies in the English department at Case Western Reserve University in 1947.Case Western Reserve University, [http://digital.case.edu/downloads/83380h70p Convocation for Conferring Degrees (1947)]: 13.
Career
Lena Beatrice Morton taught high school and college-level English courses. She was head of the humanities division at Texas College, where she held the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Chair.[https://books.google.com/books?id=xLkDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Lena+Beatrice+Morton&pg=PA44 "People"] Jet (June 8, 1967): 44. She was a life fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters in Switzerland.[https://books.google.com/books?id=97MDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Lena+Beatrice+Morton&pg=PA40 "For the Record"] Jet (March 8, 1962): 40. She also taught at Lane College in Tennessee,[https://www.lanecollege.edu/library/lanite1954.pdf Laneite] (1954): 18. and at Langston University in Oklahoma.Langston University Catalog (1950-1951): 9.
Books by Lena Beatrice Morton include Negro Poetry in America (1925),Lena Beatrice Morton, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sX1OAQAAMAAJ&q=Lena+Beatrice+Morton Negro Poetry in America] (Stratford 1925). Farewell to the Public Schools, I'm Glad We Met: A Handbook for Teachers (1952),Helen Adele Whiting, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/272448 "A Teacher's Wisdom"], Phylon 14(1)(1953): 115. Man Under Stress (1960),[https://books.google.com/books?id=j68DAAAAMBAJ&dq=Lena+Beatrice+Morton&pg=PA38 "For the Record"] Jet (January 12, 1961): 38. Patterns of Language Usage, My First Sixty Years: Passion for Wisdom (1965),Lena Beatrice Morton, [https://books.google.com/books?id=l1BAAAAAIAAJ My First Sixty Years: Passion for Wisdom] (Philosophical Library 1965). and The Influence of the Sea Upon English Poetry from the Anglo-Saxon to the Victorian Period (1976).Lena Beatrice Morton, [https://books.google.com/books?id=orkWAQAAMAAJ&q=Lena+Beatrice+Morton The Influence of the Sea Upon English Poetry from the Anglo-Saxon to the Victorian Period] (Revisionist Press 1976)
Personal life
Lena Beatrice Morton died in 1981, aged 79 years."Scholar Lena Morton Succumbs at Age 79" Cincinnati Enquirer (January 15, 1981): 53.
Her memoir was one of six considered in Stephanie Y. Evans's Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History (2007).Elisabeth I. Perry, review of Stephanie Y. Evans, [https://networks.h-net.org/node/20317/reviews/21447/perry-evans-black-women-ivory-tower-1850-1954-intellectual-history Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History] (University Press of Florida 2007), H-SHGAPE (April 2008).
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Category:Case Western Reserve University alumni
Category:University of Cincinnati alumni
Category:Educators from Kentucky
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Category:American women educators
Category:Writers from Kentucky
Category:Langston University faculty
Category:20th-century African-American women
Category:20th-century African-American people