Susie Lankford Shorter
{{Short description|American educator, philanthropist, and writer}}
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| birth_place = Terre Haute, Indiana
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| nationality = American
| education = Wilberforce University
| field = Educator, writer
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| works = "Lifting as We Climb"
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Susie Isabel Lankford Shorter (January 4, 1859 – February 23, 1912) was an American educator, philanthropist, and writer.
Early life
Susan Isabel (or Isabella) Lankford was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, the daughter of Whitten Strange Lankford and Clarissa Carter Lankford. Her father was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was educated at Wilberforce University in Ohio.Hallie Q. Brown, [https://books.google.com/books?id=GnBA_iwA9vcC&dq=Susie+Lankford+Shorter&pg=PA205 Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction] (Oxford University Press 1988): 205–206. {{ISBN|9780199763092}}
Career
Susie Lankford taught for a few years before she married.Lawson Andrew Scruggs, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9IlNAQAAMAAJ&dq=Wilberforce+Ladies+College+Aid+Society+Shorter&pg=PA162 Women of Distinction: Remarkable in Works and Invincible in Character] (Scruggs 1893): 162–163. As a faculty wife at Wilberforce, she ran a student store, offered a free kindergarten for local children, and provided care for sick students in her home. She was president of the Wilberforce Ladies' College Aid Society.Jessie Carney Smith, ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=ssMBzqrUpjwC&dq=Susie+Lankford+Shorter&pg=PA595 Notable Black American Women, Book 2] (VNR AG 1996): 595–597. {{ISBN|9780810391772}}
Shorter wrote articles for church publications. Her booklet "Heroines of African Methodism" (1891) was written to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Bishop Daniel Payne. "We are proud of our women," she wrote. "Little has been written concerning them. They are walking in all life's avenues successfully, daring and doing what the women of other varieties of the human race dare and do."Monroe Alphus Majors, [https://books.google.com/books?id=pZ4TAAAAYAAJ&dq=Susie+Lankford+Shorter&pg=PA147 Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities] (Donohue & Henneberry 1893): 147. She also wrote a column, "Plain Talk to Our Girls", for Ringwood's Afro-American Journal of Fashion, published by Julia Ringwood Coston.Noliwe M. Rooks, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bSS8cmPfalQC&dq=Susie+Lankford+Shorter&pg=PA30 Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture that Made Them] (Rutgers University Press 2004): 30. {{ISBN|9780813534244}}
She wrote the song, "Lifting as We Climb",John Russell Hawkins, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mL0vAQAAMAAJ&dq=Susie+Lankford+Shorter&pg=PA202 Centennial Encyclopedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Volume 1] (AME Church 1916): 202. for the Ohio chapter of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.Charles Harris Wesley, [https://creativefolk.com/NACW.pdf The History of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs: A Legacy of Service] (NACWC 1984): 54.
Personal life
References
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External links
- [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96370672/susan-isabella-shorter Susan Isabella Lankford Shorter's Ohio gravesite], at Find a Grave.
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Category:African-American women writers
Category:African-American educators
Category:African-American women educators
Category:People from Terre Haute, Indiana
Category:Wilberforce University alumni
Category:Educators from Indiana
Category:American women educators