This article is about an African-American educator and writer sometimes known as Hallie Queen Jackson. For a similarly named African-American educator and writer, seeHallie Quinn Brown.
Hallie E. Queen
Hallie E. Queen in Red Cross nurse's uniform, from the Howard University yearbook, 1918.
Born
Hallie Elvera Queen
Washington, D.C.
Died
(1940-10-09)October 9, 1940
Other names
Hallie Q. Jackson (after second marriage)
Hallie Elvera Queen (1880s – October 9, 1940), laterHallie Queen Jackson, was an American writer, journalist, and educator. She taught English in Puerto Rico, and was on the faculty ofDunbar High School inWashington, D.C.
After college, Queen taught nature study atTuskegee Institute,[7] English in Puerto Rico,[8][9] and English and Spanish in Virginia.[10] In 1915, she supervised the summer school at the State College for Colored Students in Dover, Delaware.[11] She was on the faculty atDunbar High School in the 1920s and 1930s.[12][13] DuringWorld War I, she chaired theAmerican Red Cross auxiliary at Howard University; she held sewing events[14] and organized student entertainment for black soldiers stationed atFort Meade.[15]
Queen was a relief worker in the aftermath of theEast St. Louis riots in 1917,[6] and testified about what she saw there, at a Congressional hearing.[16] Around that time, she gave intelligence to the Military Intelligence Section of theWar Department, on fellow black activists.[17][18][19] She used her language skills as an interpreter for Latin American diplomatic gatherings in Washington.[20] In 1928 she attended the American Council Institute of Pacific Relations meeting in New York City.[21] In 1932, she successfully protested the wording of a railroad line's advertisements.[13]
Queen was a member of theBaha'i faith.[9] She married Levi Thurman Anderson; they divorced in 1919.[28] She married a second time, to Roosevelt L. Jackson, by 1929.[29] She died in October 1940.[6][30]
^Johnson, W. R. (1999)."Black american radicalism and the first world war: The secret files of the military intelligence division"Armed Forces and Society, 26(1), 27–53.
