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| death_place = Louisville, Kentucky
| nationality = American
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Lavinia B. Sneed (1867-1932) was a prolific journalist, known for her accessible style of writing.

Biography

Sneed was born on May 15, 1867 in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] She moved to Louisville, Kentucky and attended the State Colored Baptist University, graduating in 1887.[2] The State Colored Baptist University was renamed State University, then renamed Simmons Bible College and is now known as Simmons College of Kentucky.[2]

In 1888 she married Charles F. Sneed a professor at State University.[3][2]

Her career in education included teaching at State University[2], serving on the Ladies Board of Care at Eckstein Norton University[2], and serving as principal of the Georgia Moore Colored School and Phillis Wheatley Colored School[4]

A highlight of her journalism career were her contributions to the magazine Our Women and Children. Her follow contributors included Mary Virginia Cook Parrish, Lucy Wilmot Smith and Iona E. Wood.[2]

She is included in several biographical collections of notable African American women, including "Women of Distinction" (1893) by edited by Lawson A. Scruggs[1], "Their Triumphs and Activities", (1893) by Monroe Alpheus Majors and "The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia" (2015) {{ISBN|0813160650}}[2].[5]

She died on June 23, 1932 in Louisville, Kentucky.[6]

References

1. ^{{cite book |last1=Scruggs |first1=L. A. (Lawson Andrew) |title=Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character |date=1893 |publisher=Raleigh : L. A. Scruggs |pages=270-271 |url=https://archive.org/details/womenofdistincti00scru/page/n8}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.simmonscollegeky.edu/history/ |website=Simmons College of Kentucky |accessdate=27 February 2019 |language=en}}
3. ^{{cite book |last1=Penn |first1=Irvine Garland |title=The Afro-American Press and Its Editors |date=1891 |publisher=Willey & Company |pages=413-415 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y80OAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA413&lpg=PA413&dq=Lavinia+B.+Sneed&source=bl&ots=NHg8djrzN-&sig=ACfU3U078q3fzapOTnDra4L7kw-7hpsc5g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqxOzqt9zgAhUBUt8KHaeyB0YQ6AEwA3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=Lavinia%20B.%20Sneed&f=false |language=en}}
4. ^{{cite web |last1=Havens |first1=Sara |title=Louisville suffragists to be honored at three cemeteries on Election Day |url=https://insiderlouisville.com/lifestyle_culture/louisville-suffragists-to-be-honored-at-three-cemeteries-on-election-day/ |website=Insider Louisville |accessdate=27 February 2019 |date=5 November 2018}}
5. ^{{cite web |title=Mrs. Lavinia B. Sneed |url=http://cbw.iath.virginia.edu/women_display.php?id=20874 |website=Collective Biographies of Women |publisher=University of Virginia Department of English |accessdate=27 February 2019}}
6. ^{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Gerald L. |last2=McDaniel |first2=Karen Cotton |last3=Hardin |first3=John A. |title=The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia |date=2015 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=9780813160665 |page=472 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-0AoCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA472#v=onepage&q&f=false |language=en}}
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6 : 1867 births|1932 deaths|African-American educators|African-American women journalists|Simmons College of Kentucky alumni|Writers from Louisville, Kentucky

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