Lena Doolin Mason
Lena Doolin Mason | |
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Born | May 6, 1864 Quincy, Illinois |
Died | August 28, 1924(1924-08-28) (aged 60) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Nationality | American |
Education | Douglass High School |
Occupation | Ministry |
Years active | 1887–1924 |
Known for | Colored Conference |
Lena Doolin Mason (May 6, 1864 – August 28, 1924) was an American Methodist preacher and poet.
Biography
White man, stop lynching and burning |
— Lena Doolin Mason[1] |
Lena Doolin was born on May 6, 1864, in Quincy, Illinois, to Vaughn and Relda Doolin.[2] She joined the congregation of Hannibal, Missouri's African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872.[3] She attended Douglass High School in Hannibal and Professor Knott's School in Chicago. In 1883, she married George Mason. Their daughter was the only one of their six children to survive to adulthood. When she was 23, Mason entered the ministry, preaching exclusively to white people for her first three years.
Mason was a noted orator. During her career, she was a member of the Colored Conference and preached in "nearly every state in the Union."[3]
Mason also wrote songs and composed poetry. Only two of her poems are extant, "A Negro in It," written in response to the Assassination of William McKinley, and "The Negro in Education." For the latter poem, she subverted the standard pro-slavery argument that education makes people unfit to be slaves.[1]
References
- ^ a b Aaseng, Nathan (2011). "Mason, Lena Doolin". African-American Religious Leaders, Revised Edition, A to Z of African Americans. New York: Facts On File. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
- ^ Montgomery, Mary Lou (June 27, 2015). "History in Hannibal: Born of a war over slavery, Lena Mason rises to evangelistic status". Hannibal Courier-Post.
- ^ a b Dodson, Jualynne E. (2002). Engendering Church: Women, Power, and the AME Church. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littelfield. pp. 53, 79. ISBN 978-0-8476-9381-8.
Further reading
- Curry, Ora Anderson. "Uncrowned Queen." African American Women: Community Builders of Western New York.
- Hine, Darlene Clarke. Black Women in America, A–L. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Publishing, 1993.
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. The African American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
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