Background
Her father was the president of the Duluth chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
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Ethel Ray
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Career
Ethel Ray Nance was an African American civil rights activist. Early on Nance worked for the Minnesota State Relief Commission. In 1921, at 22, Nance met West.E.B. Du Bois.
Nance gained national recognition in 1923 for breaking the secretarial color barrier in the Minnesota State Legislature.
In Kansas City, Nance was executive secretary for the local chapter of the Urban League. She moved to New York in 1924 and became Charles South. Johnson"s secretary.
She assisted him with research at Opportunity magazine. Nance died on July 11, 1992 in San Francisco, California.
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