| LC control no. | n 85092077 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Casely-Hayford, Adelaide |
| Variant(s) | Hayford, Adelaide Casely- Smith Casely Hayford, Adelaide |
| Associated country | Sierra Leone |
| Birth date | 1868-06-27 |
| Death date | 1960-01-24 |
| Place of birth | Freetown (Sierra Leone) |
| Place of death | Freetown (Sierra Leone) |
| Affiliation | Annie Walsh Memorial School Young Women's Christian Association Universal Negro Improvement Association Girls' Vocational and Industrial Training School (Freetown) International Congress of Colored Women (Organization) |
| Profession or occupation | Feminists Authors Educators Poets |
| Found in | Her Mother and daughter, 1983: t.p. (Adelaide Casely-Hayford) Cromwell, A.M. An African Victorian feminist, 1986:t.p. (Adelaide Smith Casely Hayford, 1868-1960) p. 1 (member of Creole elite, Freetown, Sierra Leone) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed January 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Casely-Hayford, Adelaide; Adelaide Smith; writer, educator, feminist, poet; born 27 June 1868 in Freetown, Sierra Leone; educated at Jersey Ladies' College; taught at Annie Walsh Memorial School in Freetown; opened her Girls' Vocational and Industrial Training School in Freetown (1923); was elected vice president of the International Congress of Colored Women, president of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), Freetown, and lady president of the local division of Universal Negro Improvement Association; she died 24 January 1960 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) |
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