Background
Annetta Louise Gomez-Jefferson was born on December 5, 1927, in Detroit, Michigan to Joseph Gomez, a bishop, and Hazel (Thompson) Gomez.
Annetta graduated from Western Reserve University (now Case-Western Reserve University) with M.A. in 1959.
She attended John Carroll University.
Annetta graduated from Western Reserve University (now Case-Western Reserve University) with M.A. in 1959.
She attended John Carroll University.
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Joseph Gomez was a charismatic minister who rose through the ranks of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to be ordained a bishop in 1948. He was also a teacher, civil rights pioneer, scholar, writer, and humanitarian. His daughter, Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson, has drawn on letters, journals, and church records to write his biography and a history of the age in which he lived. Joseph Gomez was born on the island of Antigua and came to the United States in 1908. He served in several ministries, but is most closely associated with Ohio, particularly Cleveland and Wilberforce College, from which he graduated. Gomez-Jefferson captures the growing concern of the Black middle-class with civil rights, and its persistent attempts to confront problems with tactics less confrontational than those of the sixties and seventies. More than a biography, In Darkness with God is a history of Black life during the early part of the century and a chronicle of the political and religious struggles of the first autonomous Black church in the United States.
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Annetta Louise Gomez-Jefferson was born on December 5, 1927, in Detroit, Michigan to Joseph Gomez, a bishop, and Hazel (Thompson) Gomez.
Annetta graduated from Paul Quinn College with B.A. (magna cum laude) in 1957 and from Western Reserve University (now Case-Western Reserve University) with M.A. in 1959. She also attended John Carroll University and studied drama with Erwin Piscator at Dramatic Workshop, New York City, 1948-50.
From 1959-66, Annetta taught in the Cleveland Secondary Public Schools, the upward Bound Summer Program at Western Reserve University, the College Summer Program for High School Seniors at Western Reserve University and at Case School Of Technology. She was a Master Teacher in the MAT Program at John Carroll University, and served as a writer for the Educational Research Council of America in Cleveland.
From 1967-74 she was writer and producer for WVIZ Educational Television Station in Cleveland. Her series' included: Blackpeoplehood (Ford Foundation grant), Brother Man (Ford Foundation Grant), Black Journal: Cleveland Response, which she also hosted, The History of Black Americans and Reflections in Black (history and literature series for high schools funded by Martha Holden Jennings Foundation), Behavior Modification and Individualization of Instruction (for public School teachers), four shows for Inside/Out, an Award winning National Instructional T.V. Series for which she received an Emmy Citation, and Four Christmas Specials highlighting African American artistic talent in Cleveland.
From 1974 to her retirement in 1995, Professor Gomez-Jefferson was a member of the faculty at the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, where in 1982, she was asked to develop and chair a Theatre Department. During her years at the College Of Wooster, she directed 42 plays, 5 Black Arts Festivals and as well as the original plays: In Both Hands, My Soul Looks Back In Wonder, Drown The Wind (musical, music by Brian Dykstra), Amandla, and The Fish Monger. She founded and directed the Stage Right Repertory Company (summers 1982-86).
Her other professional experiences include Guest Director: at The Humanist Theatre, Karamu House, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio; Wooster High School (Black Arts Festival) Wooster, Ohio; and at Paul Quinn College, Waco, Texas.
Annetta served as Director of the Speakers' Bureau for the Cleveland Branch of the NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) during the 60's, Awards Banquet Speaker for the Indianapolis Chapter of the NAACP, did poetry readings at Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland State University, Kent State University, and Oberlin College, and served as Guest Lecturer for one semester (1972) at Oberlin College where she taught "Writing For Television". She has been a Guest Speaker at numerous A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Churches throughout the country, at Cleveland State University, Kent State University, and Wilberforce University and during her Sabbatical from Wooster at several Polytechnic Colleges in London, England.
She died at her home in Wooster on December 16, 2009.
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Annetta had a democratic views.
Annetta was a member of American Theater Association, Black Theater Association, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Annetta was fond of reading, oil painting (portraits) and music.
Annetta married Curtis F. Jefferson in 1950. They had two children: Curtis A. Gomez and Joseph Jefferson. They divorced in 1971.
