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APPENDIX C: Capital Campaign for the new Phillis Wheatley Association, 1926–27
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174 APPENDIX C Hunter placed the majority of the PWA residents in domestic service positions, the most readily available work for African American women in Cleveland in the early twentieth century. Through the development of the Sarah C. Hills Training School, a well equipped home where “girls learn(ed) to keep house in the modern way,” Hunter sought to elevate the status of domestics by equipping trainees with professional techniques for polishing furniture, setting tables, preparing and serving meals, cleaning homes, and washing clothing.1 Opposite top: Class of the Sarah C. Hills Training School, September 12 to November 10, 1938 (ca. 1938). Front row (l to r): Frances Scott, Cora Tucker, Julia Fellows, Mary Alice Chapel, Lillian Mitchell, Metiska James, Jessie Lee Melton; Second Row (l to r): Elsie Sherod, Cathryn Bell, Emma Jean Pratt, Dolly Hodge, Elizabeth Johnson, Inez Cantrell. Used by permission of the Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland, Ohio. Opposite bottom: PWA Employment Office (n.d.) Used by permission of the Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland, Ohio. C END P APPE IX X C DI Appendix C 175 ...