Elizabeth Tate

For other people named Elizabeth Tate, see Elizabeth Tate (disambiguation).

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

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.[1]

In 1938 Tate bought a house for $3,300[2] that would later[3] become a boarding house in Iowa City for African-American students who were not allowed to use the normal university accommodation.[4][5] In the house Tate did the cooking while the boys staying at the house cleaned up.[2] The house, Tate Arms,[6] was named an historic landmark in 2014[7] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.[8] Tate Arms started housing black students in 1938,[7] and created a "home away from home" for the people who lived there.[9] Tate sold the building in 1979.[10]

Honors

In 2005, Iowa City named its alternative high school, Tate High School, in honor of Tate.[10]

References

1. Beers, Johanna Nelson (1976-06-26). "Have you heard?". Iowa City Press-Citizen. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
2. "Elizabeth Tate". Iowa City Press-Citizen. 2010-03-11. p. 102. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
3. Arnold, Madison (2017-01-21). "Grant to preserve black student housing". The Gazette. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
4. "Iowa Women's Archives - Elizabeth Crawford Tate Papers - The University of Iowa Libraries". Sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-05-08. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
5. "Iowa City's Fabulous 150 | Iowa City Press-Citizen | Progress 2010". Press-citizen-media.com. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
6. Johnson, Richard A.; Codagnone, Brian (2002). The Boston Garden. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-1152-8.
7. Castle, Chase (2014-08-15). "Commission names Tate Arms building an historic landmark". Iowa City Press-Citizen. pp. A3. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
8. "Two Iowa City landmarks added to National Register of Historic". IDCA. 2020-03-09. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
9. "Refuges from racism". The Gazette. 1999-09-26. pp. [1], [2]. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
10. Gowans, Alison (February 22, 2020). "Homes planted in history". newspaperarchive.com. pp. [3], [4]. Retrieved 2022-04-15.

External links

• Tate High School