Mildred Chadsey to Charles W. Chesnutt, 22 September 1931
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THE ADULT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION1
IN AFFILIATION WITH
CLEVELAND COLLEGE
NEWTON D. BAKERPRESIDENT MRS. JOHN T. WEBSTER
FIRST VICE PRES. MILDRED CHADSEY
EXECUTIVE SECY. CLEVELAND COLLEGE BLDG. PUBLIC SQUARE MAIN 1102 September 22, 1931 Mr. Charles W. Chestnutt 1646 Union Trust Building Cleveland, Ohio My dear Mr. Chestnutt:
I do not believe that, as long as you have been a member of the Adult Education Association, I have seen you at any of our meetings. I hope that both you and Mrs. Chestnutt2 will attend some of the meetings this winter. I am sure that you will be interested in both our Economics Conference and our Foreign Affairs Conference, and also in some of the foreign affairs luncheon meetings.
I hope, too, that this letter reaches you in time for you to come to the Annual Meeting which, as you will recall, is Friday, September 25 at 12:15 in the Chamber of Commerce Club.3
Sincerely yours, Mildred Chadsey MC:AL Answered Oct 17/31Correspondent: Mildred Chadsey (1884–1940) was a progressive White activist in Cleveland. She became the city's first housing commissioner in 1912, trained social workers throughout the 1920s, and was active in the labor movement and a range of civic causes. From the late 1920s on, she was executive secretary of the Adult Education Association of Cleveland.
1. The Adult Education Association of Cleveland was formed in 1927 as the successor to the 1925 Education Extension Council. Cleveland social reformer Mildred Chadsey (1884–1940) was one of the founders and became its director, and then its executive secretary under Newton D. Baker (1871–1937), Cleveland's former Democratic mayor, who was the Association's president 1930–31. Chesnutt became a member sometime before 1931. [back]
2. Susan Perry Chesnutt (1861–1940) was from a well-established Black family in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and worked as a teacher at Fayetteville's Howard School before marrying Chesnutt. They were married from 1878 until his death in 1932 and had four children: Ethel, Helen, Edwin, and Dorothy. Susan led an active life in Cleveland. [back]
3. The Chamber of Commerce Club emerged from the Cleveland Council of Sociology in the mid-1910s. It regularly featured public lectures and debates, but also let many civic organizations use its rooms at the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, which had moved from its former location on the Public Square to the new Terminal Tower building by 1930. [back]
