Margaret (Just) Butcher (1913 - 2000)

Born 28 Apr 1913 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Stanton Lawrence Wormley Sr — married 8 Sep 1936 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Died 7 Feb 2000 at age 86 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Biography

Margaret (Just) Butcher is Notable.

Margaret Just Butcher is noted as an American educator and civil rights activist. She worked as and English professor at Howard University and Federal City College. She also taught at two universities in France as a Fulbright Visiting Professor, the first women chosen for this program.

She was an educator and taught at Virginia Union, Washington DC's public schools, Howard University, Federal City College and spent some time as a member of the Washington, DC's Board of Education.^[1] She also worked with the NAACP on a suit for the desegregation of public schools in Washington, DC following Brown v. Board of Education (1954).^[1] Some of the foreign schools in which she taught included the University of Grenoble and the University of Lyon in France, in Rabat and Casablanca in Morocco. She was also a culture affairs attache to Parish in the 1960s.^[1]

Margaret was mentored by and later became a close friend of Alain Locke at Howard University.^[1] She cared for him during his final illness and edited and completed his The Negro in American Culture, published posthumously in 1956.^[1] She was also ardent in her advocacy for civil rights. While on the Washington, DC school board, she pushed for desegration, often meeting with derision. She also served as a member of the National Civil Defense Advisory Council in 1952, replacing Mary McLeod Bethune.^[2]

Margaret was born in 1913, the daughter of another notable, Ernest Just and Ethel Highwarden.^[1][3] As both her parents were highly educated, they saw that she received the best schooling in the area and also spent some time studying in Italy in 1927. She earned a PhD in 1947 from Boston University.^[1]

She passed away 7 February 2000.^[4]

Marriage

Margaret was married to Stanton Wormley on 8 September 1936 in Washington, District of Columbia; they had one child. Secondly, she married James William Butcher, Jr on 28 April 1949 in Washington, DC.^[5]

They divorced after ten years.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Wikipedia contributors, "Margaret Just Butcher," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret_Just_Butcher&oldid=993906335 (accessed February 21, 2021).
2. ↑ Boyd, Herb. "Dr. Margaret Just Butcher, educator and political activist," New York Amsterdam News, online newspaper, 22 August 2019 (http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2019/aug/22/dr-margaret-just-butcher-educator-and-political-ac/ : accessed 21 February 2021)
3. ↑ "COVER: MARGARET JUST BUTCHER BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE." Negro History Bulletin 20, no. 1 (1956): 15. Accessed February 22, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44215203.
4. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V3PQ-KJF : 11 January 2021), Margaret J Butcher, 07 Feb 2000; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
5. ↑ Marriage Records. District of Columbia Marriages. Clerk of the Superior Court, Records Office, Washington D.C.; text-only collection, "Washington, D.C., U.S., Marriage Records, 1810-1953," Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016 (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 February 2021); citing FHL Film Number 002320035.

Wikidata: Item Q85555714

See also:

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 February 2021), memorial page for Margaret Just Butcher (28 Apr 1913–7 Feb 2000), Find A Grave: Memorial #175475256, citing Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA ; Maintained by Scout731 (contributor 48372293).
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K73M-4F9 : 22 December 2019), Margret Wormley in household of Lawrence R Wormley, Tract 31, District of Columbia, Police Precinct 10, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1-413, sheet 8A, line 40, family 159, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 567.