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from Part IV - Enacting Emancipation in the Aftermath of Slavery
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2020
Born at the beginning of the Civil War in Norfolk County, Virginia, Laura E. Davis Titus was a member of freedom’s first generation in the United States. Titus was among hundreds of African America women who redefined their place in society through education, civic endeavors, professions, and community advocacy. A teacher and a strong advocate for African American access to education, Titus took her work beyond the walls of the public schools to her home community, participating in the National Association of Colored Women, organizing community institutions, and founding settlement homes that provided young girls coming through Norfolk with much needed safe spaces, guidance, and employable skills such as cooking and sewing.This effort emerged from her participation in the black women’s club movement that was partially inspired by the activism of the Progressive Era. Titus embraced teaching and social service as a means for racial uplift.
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