Career
She was an instructor at Langston University in Oklahoma and at Saint Philip"s College in San Antonio. In 1943, she accepted a three-month transfer to the San Antonio Young Women’s Christian Association-United Service Organizations for Black Military, a group formed to help morale for African American service members and their families. Mississippi Black had also founded several senior citizen daycare centers such as Health Incorporated, which earned her recognition from the nation"s capital.
In 1946, ZerNona Stewart married Claude Black.
They had two children, six grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. In January 2005, Mississippi
Black died peacefully in her sleep, aged 98, two weeks short of her 59th wedding anniversary. She is interred in Meadowlawn Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas.
The city of San Antonio has created The Review
Claude and ZerNona Black Scholarship Endowment Fund. Per the Woodson Tree, she was a descendant of President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings.
