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Penny Richards (pennamiteplr@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 08:15:43 JST Penny Richards
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started a #wikipedia article on US educator Delia L. Silance (1907-1984), who with her sister Ella was one of the first Black women to graduate from Purdue University (in 1932): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Silance @wikiwomeninred #BlackHistoryMonth @lifeatpurdue #LafayetteIN
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1. Delia Silance, from a 1930 photograph in the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers. A smiling young Black woman wearing a dress with a lace front detail.
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2. Delia Silance, from a 1925 high school yearbook; a young Black woman
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  Delia Silance
  
  Delia Loretta Silance (March 20, 1907 – April 10, 1984) was an American educator. She and her younger sister Ella Belle were the first known African-American women to graduate from Purdue University, in 1932. Silance worked in high schools and higher education until she retired in 1970. Early life and education Silance was born in Lafayette, Indiana, the daughter of Louis Napoleon Silance and Emma Florence Smith Silance. She graduated from Jefferson High School in 1925, and earned a bachelor's degree from Purdue University in 1932, with help from a scholarship from the Indiana Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and an academic scholarship. Both of her parents died while she was in college, and Purdue policies meant that she could not live in the college dormitories or use campus dining halls. She and her sister Ella Belle lived with their grandmother Delia Smith and other relatives until they both finished college in 1932. She received a special award for being an "outstanding girl in science", and she was on the distinguished student list all eight semesters of her college career. The Silance sisters are considered...

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