Background
Washington, Jean B. was born on April 22, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of George Ullman and Lillian R. (Rosenzweig) Birkenstein.
Washington, Jean B. was born on April 22, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of George Ullman and Lillian R. (Rosenzweig) Birkenstein.
Bachelor in Fine Arts Music, Middleburg (Vermont) College, 1948. Bachelor in Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1952. Postgraduate, IIT, Chicago, 1980.
Computer science instructor Triton College, River Grove, Illinois, 1982-1983. Software engineer Victor Business, Chicago, 1981, A.B. Dick Corporation, Skokie, Illinois, 1981-1982, Rocklan Corporation, Arlington Heights, 1982-1983. Telephone engineer GTE, Northlake, 1978-1981.
Instructor Malcom X College, Chicago, 1970-1978, West Side Learning Center, Chicago, from 1989. President Jeanius, Inc., from 1985.
(Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was t...)
Officer Rain Forest Action Group, Chicago, since 1989, Congress of Racial Equality, Chicago, 1960-1963. Civil rights activist, Chicago, 1954-1964, others. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association Computing Machinery, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (officer 1957-1960).
Married Atlee D., May 1951 (divorced May 1959). Children: Glen Gordon Washington, Robin Birk Washington.