Women's History Month: Mame Stewart Josenberger
Small business owner and civil rights leader Mame Steward Josenberger of Fort Smith, Arkansas (1872-1964).
Mame Stewart Josenberger is another Arkansas trailblazer who should be more widely known. A graduate of Fisk University and a contemporary there of W.E.B. DuBois, Josenberger took a teaching position at Fort Smith's Howard High School — the only Black high school in western Arkansas — in 1890. After the death of her husband in 1909, she became the sole proprietor of the family's expanding business interests, including a funeral home, an entertainment venue and property in Little Rock.
As professor Cherisse Jones-Branch has written, "Josenberger's community and organizational affiliations were considerable." They included lifetime membership in the NAACP, including service on the editorial board of its flagship publication, The Crisis; the National Negro Business League; and the National Association of Colored Women, serving as the latter's state president from 1929 to 1931.
Learn more about Josenberger at the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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