Mabel Robinson Love papers

Collection

Identifier: 232

Staff Only

Content Description

This collection contains a photograph is of Mabel Love, who was a national officer of the Delta Sigma Theta, and members of three New Orleans chapters, namely Alpha Eta Sigma, Beta Gamma chapter of Dillard University, and the Gamma Alpha chapter of Xavier University. Persons identified by Jessie C. Dent include: Vera Baranco, Elise Rousseve, Naomi Evans, Thelma Johnson Mitchell, Adeline Lewis, Jessie Dent, Estelle Baranco Turpin, Emma Adams, Vivan Osborne Marsh, Sylvia Labat, Lydia Davis, Louise Demouy, Inez Jenkins. Mabel Love is seated in the second row, fifth from the left.

Also included in this collection are correspondence, certificates and awards, photographs, and collected publications, many of which are related to arts activities at Fisk University and Hampton Institute.

Dates

Other: 1940s

Creator

Love, Mabel Robinson (Person)

Biographical Note

Mabel Francina Robinson Love was born June 27, 1906 in Hampton, Virginia. She was the daughter of James and Emma Mossom Robinson. Love received her early education in the Norwich, New York School System. She received her Bachelors of Science degree from Hampton Institute in 1929 and her Masters of Arts from Columbia University in 1931. From 1929 to 1941, she taught physical education, dance, and health at Alabama State Teachers College. She then went on to teach at Lemoyne College from 1941 to 1952. In 1952, Love came to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee to teach physical education, dance and health. She retired from Fisk in 1975.

She was a member of several professional and social organizations including Dance Educators of America, National Negro Health Education, National Health Organization, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She was a charter member of the Nashville Chapter of Girl Friends, Inc., and a founder of the California Chapter of Girl Friends, Inc. During her teaching years Love conducted dance classes for children four years and up on Saturdays.

She was the wido of Dr. Theodore A. Love, a former professor of mathematics at Fisk.