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Organizer played integral part in African-American women's rights
Tuesday, February 08, 2000
Daisy Adams Lampkin dedicated her life to elevating African-Americans and women. She is most recognized for her contributions as an organizer, fund-raiser, public speaker and mobilization specialist.
She was born in 1883 and moved to Pittsburgh in 1909. In 1912, she began work with the Women's Suffrage Movement by organizing African-American women into political units, leading street corner campaigns, and consumer protest groups. Serving for 40 years as president of the Lucy Stone Suffrage League, she promoted women's rights and education for young African-Americans.
Six years after women won voting rights, Lampkin was elected an alternate delegate-at-large for the Republican Party National Convention. From 1935-47, she was the national field secretary for the NAACP. She helped launch the political careers of Rep. K. Leroy Irvis and former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Lampkin also served as vice president of the Pittsburgh Courier and was a board of directors member for the Urban League, the National Council of Churches and the NAACP. She was a member of the Negro Voters League of Pennsylvania and the National Council of Negro Women Pittsburgh Chapter. In 1945, the NAACP named Lampkin Woman of the Year, and in 1964, she received the first Eleanor Roosevelt-Mary McLeod Bethune World Citizenship Award from the National Council of Negro Women.
Lampkin died in 1965 at her home in the Hill District.
- By Mary Martin, African-American programs coordinator, History Center
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