Roberta Dunbar

Roberta Johnson Dunbar (died November 1, 1956) was an American clubwoman and peace activist based in Rhode Island. Her first name is sometimes written "Reberta" in sources.[1]

Roberta J. Dunbar, in a 1917 publication.

Early life

Roberta Johnson Dunbar was born at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, the daughter of Daniel Dunbar and Louisa Cartwright Dunbar.[1]

Career

From 1902 through 1905, and again in 1931, Roberta J. Dunbar was president of the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, a body of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).[2][3][4][5] In 1913, Roberta J. Dunbar was elected as a founding officer of the Providence, Rhode Island branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.[6][7] She was also president of the Working Girls Club in Providence.[8]

In 1928. Dunbar was serving as president of the Rhode Island Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.[9] Dunbar chaired the NACW's Peace Department in the 1930s. She addressed the organization's 1937 national convention in Fort Worth, Texas on the topic, saying "We women want peace, and no woman of any nation is in a better position to bring this Era than the women of America."[10]

In 1950, she was elected by the Women's Newport League to be their delegate to the national NACW convention in Atlantic City.[11]

Personal life

Dunbar died in 1956, at the Home for Aged Colored People in Providence.[12]

See also

References
  1. Frank Lincoln Mather, Who's Who of the Colored Race (Chicago 1915): 96-97.
  2. Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac (1904): 308.
  3. LaVonne Leslie, The History of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. (XLibris Corporation 2012). ISBN 9781479722655
  4. "Women Are Active" New York Age (March 16, 1905): 1. via Newspapers.com
  5. "Women's Clubs of East Convene in Parley Here" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (August 19, 1931): 2. via Newspapers.com
  6. "What the Branches are Doing" The Crisis (December 1958): 635.
  7. "Our History" Providence Branch, NAACP.
  8. Rhode Island, Office of Commissioner of Labor, Report to the General Assembly 24(1911): 404.
  9. "Providence R. I." New York Age (August 4, 1928): 9. via Newspapers.com
  10. Ruthe Winegarten, Janet G. Humphrey, Frieda Werden, eds., Black Texas Women: A Sourcebook (University of Texas Press 2014): 140. ISBN 9780292785564
  11. "Women League Names Convention Delegate" Newport Mercury (May 26, 1950): 3. via Newspapers.com
  12. Roberta Dunbar obituary, Newport Daily News (November 5, 1956): 2. via Newspapers.com
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