Katherine Stewart Flippin
Katherine Stewart Flippin (1906-1996) was a special educator in San Francisco and only daughter of lawyer McCants Stewart.[1][2]
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Biography
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In Portland, Oregon, Katherine Flippin was born Mary Katherine Stewart to parents McCants Stewart and Mary Weir Stewart. During her final year of high school, she dropped out and began a fifteen-year stint working in a department store.[2]
She married Robert Browning Flippin, a community activist and future executive director of the Booker T. Washington Community Service Center. In 1918, they moved to San Francisco. Their marriage is featured in Stormy Weather: Middle-class African American Marriages Between the Two World Wars.[2][3]
After getting married, Flippin finished high school and went on to earn both a bachelor's and a master's degrees in early childhood education at San Francisco State College. During this time, she was a supervising teacher in the nursery school at the college. In 1949, Flippin was appointed to the faculty. Flippin established Aid for Brain-Damaged Children, Inc., an experimental unit focused on how non-motor handicapped, brain-injured children deviate in visual and auditory areas. Flippin also was a teacher at the Northern California School for Cerebral Palsied and Others.[2]
In 1966, Flippin started as a coordinator for the Head Start program in Pacifica, California. From 1968 until her retirement in 1972, she acted as the director of Cooper's Corner Child Care Center.[2]
In 1967, Flippin donated the papers of her father, McCants Stewart, to Howard University.[4]
Flippin was a former president of Kappa Delta Pi. She was also an active member in the NAACP, San Francisco Consumer Action, and Children's Home Society.[2] She was the niece of Carlotta Stewart Lai, who was a teacher and educator in Hawaii's public school system for about four decades.
References
- "Minnie Fisher. Transcript". Hollis for Archival Discovery. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- "Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976–1981: Biographies". Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America Research Guides. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- Curwood, Anastasia Carol (2010). Stormy weather : middle-class African American marriages between the two World Wars (illustrated ed.). University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807834343. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- "STEWART - Flippin Family". Howard University Manuscript Division Finding Aids. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
External links
- Katherine Flippin Interview Transcript, 1976-1981 OH-31. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.