DeBlanc-Yerwood, Ada

Ada DeBlanc-Yerwood was an African American student at Iowa State College.

Life and Education

M.S. Home Economics Education and M.S. Child Development, 1936

Thesis: “Certain Housing Conditions and Activities of Negro Girls enrolled in Federally-Aided Schools in Texas as One Index of Their Educational Needs”

Public Health Representative for Texas Tuberculosis Association for 25 years

HBCU Contribution

Head of Home Economics at Tillotson College

Legacy

• Wrote children's books for gifted children
• Co-founder of the W.H. Passon Historical Society (for Austin's black community's history)
• Co-founder of the George Washington Carver Museum
• Inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame