Edna S. Landers

Edna S. Landers
Edna S. Landers, from the 1928 yearbook of Tuskegee Institute
Born
Edna Amelia Spears

1882
Florida, U.S.
DiedOctober 1952(1952-10-00) (aged 69–70)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Other namesEdna Walcott
OccupationsDean of Women, Tuskegee Institute

Edna Amelia Spears Landers (1882 – October 1952) was an American educator and college administrator. She was Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute from 1919 to 1935.

Early life and education

Landers was born in Florida. She graduated from Tuskegee Institute in 1898, and made further studies at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1901 and 1902.[1][2]

Career

Landers taught history and geography at Tuskegee after she graduated from the institute.[3] She also taught at the Tallahassee State Normal and Industrial Institute's summer program.[4] She was Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute from 1919 to 1935.[5][6]

Landers traveled in Europe with her niece Leonie Spears Carter, wife of diplomat James Garneth Carter, in 1928.[7] She lived in France for a year in retirement,[8][9] and in Chicago.[10] She was active in the Chicago YMCA and Tuskegee Club in the 1930s[11] and 1940s.[12] In 1935 she spoke at a commemoration of Booker T. Washington's life.[13] 1944 she spoke at a Chicago banquet of Associated Women Students.[14]

Publications

  • "Carrying the Gospel of Play to the Rural Community" (1924)[15]

Personal life

Spears married dentist Anderson T. Landers in 1908; their daughter died in infancy, and he died in 1917. She married again in 1947,[16] to former Tuskegee commandant William H. Walcott; his first wife was educator Bess Bolden Walcott, who was also long associated with Tuskegee.[17] She died in 1952, in Chicago.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Award of Scholarships; Dean Russell Announces the Appointments for Southern Teachers; A Sharp Competition". The New York Times. September 18, 1901. p. 7. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-02-09.
  2. ^ Columbia University Teachers College (1902). Announcement of Teachers College, Columbia University. Teachers College, Columbia University. p. 109.
  3. ^ Washington, Booker T.; Harlan, Louis R.; McTigue, Geraldine R. (1979). Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 8: 1904-6. Assistant Editor, Geraldine McTigue. University of Illinois Press. pp. 482, note 4. ISBN 978-0-252-00728-6.
  4. ^ "Week in Society item". The Washington Bee. 1907-09-14. p. 5. Retrieved 2026-02-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Tuskegee Institute,Crimson and Gold (1928 yearbook).
  6. ^ Roseboro, Ashla C. Hill (2025-07-10). History of Black Women Deans, College Alumnae Organizations, and Activism. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-6669-6365-6.
  7. ^ "From Abroad". The Chicago Defender. 1928-10-20. p. 23. Retrieved 2026-02-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Ax Hits Many Veteran Tuskegee Educators; Imes, Carter and Others Get Retirement". The Black Dispatch. 1935-08-22. pp. 1, 2. Retrieved 2026-02-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Hines, Percy R. (1937-11-06). "Chicago Tuskegee Club". The Chicago Defender. p. 11. Retrieved 2026-02-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Hines, Percy R. (1935-11-28). "Chicago Hears Dean Landers". The Black Dispatch. p. 7. Retrieved 2026-02-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Chicago Tuskegee Club". The Chicago Defender. 1935-11-16. p. 26. Retrieved 2026-02-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Tuskegee Club Fetes 500 Visitors Here for Game". The Chicago Defender. 1946-11-02. p. 17. Retrieved 2026-02-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Hines, Percy R. (1935-11-23). "Tuskegeeans in Memorial to the Founder; Ex-Dean of Women in Principal Speaker". The Chicago Defender. p. 9. Retrieved 2026-02-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Speaks at Banquet". The New York Age. 1944-04-15. p. 4. Retrieved 2026-02-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Landers, Edna S. (March 1924). "Carrying the Gospel of Play to the Rural Community". The Playground. 17 (12): 649, 672.
  16. ^ a b "Walcott Funeral Held in Chicago". The Tuskegee Herald. 1952-10-21. pp. 1, 8. Retrieved 2026-02-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Nix, Charles (1983-04-28). "Tuskegee; Ex-Teacher Fears Heritage Slipping Away". Ledger-Enquirer. p. 9. Retrieved 2026-02-09 – via Newspapers.com.
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