Elizabeth Tate Explained

Elizabeth Crawford ("Bettye") Tate (June 22, 1906  - September 11, 1999) was a civil rights advocate during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s that desegregated African-Americans across the United States of America.

Biography

Elizabeth (Bettye)Crawford Tate was born in Fairfield, Iowa, in 1906.[1] https://share.google/9GUjK2UgKzGmxY5n2 Tate graduated from Fairfield High School, Iowa, in 1926. Tate worked at the cardiovascular lab at the University of Iowa hospital; she retired in 1976.[2]

In 1938 Tate bought a house for $3,300[3] that would later[4] become a boarding house in Iowa City for African-American students who were not allowed to use the normal university accommodation.[5] [6] In the house Tate did the cooking while the boys staying at the house cleaned up. The house, Tate Arms,[7] was named an historic landmark in 2014[8] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.[9] Tate Arms started housing black students in 1938, and created a "home away from home" for the people who lived there.[10] Tate sold the building in 1979.[11]

Honors

In 2005, Iowa City named its alternative high school, Tate High School, in honor of Tate.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Tate - Tate High School . 2026-01-19 . tate.iowacityschools.org . en-US.
  2. News: Beers . Johanna Nelson . 1976-06-26 . Have you heard? . 5 . Iowa City Press-Citizen . 2022-04-15.
  3. News: 2010-03-11 . Elizabeth Tate . 102 . Iowa City Press-Citizen . 2022-04-15.
  4. News: Arnold . Madison . 2017-01-21 . Grant to preserve black student housing . 12 . The Gazette . 2022-04-15.
  5. Web site: Iowa Women's Archives - Elizabeth Crawford Tate Papers - The University of Iowa Libraries . Sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu . 2012-10-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120508185806/http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/findingaids/html/TateBettye.htm . 2012-05-08 .
  6. Web site: Iowa City's Fabulous 150 | Iowa City Press-Citizen | Progress 2010 . Press-citizen-media.com . 2012-10-16.
  7. Book: Johnson . Richard A. . The Boston Garden . Codagnone . Brian . 2002 . Arcadia Publishing . 978-0-7385-1152-8 . en.
  8. News: Castle . Chase . 2014-08-15 . Commission names Tate Arms building an historic landmark . A3 . Iowa City Press-Citizen . 2022-04-15.
  9. Web site: 2020-03-09 . Two Iowa City landmarks added to National Register of Historic . 2022-04-15 . IDCA . en.
  10. News: 1999-09-26 . Refuges from racism . https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99777735/refuges-from-racism/,https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99777694/ . The Gazette . 2022-04-15.
  11. Web site: Gowans . Alison . February 22, 2020 . Homes planted in history . 2022-04-15 . newspaperarchive.com . https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-feb-22-2020-3162678/,https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-feb-22-2020-3162675/ . en.

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