THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Dr. Bernadine Newsom Denning
1930 – January 11, 2011
Educator, civil rights leader and advocate for women. National VP and honorary life member of the national board of the YWCA. Michigan Women’s Commission. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter, Director of the Office of Revenue Sharing, Dept. of the Treasury. National vice-president and chairperson for the YWCA Convention. National vice president for the National Council of Negro Women. National project chairperson of Delta Sigma Theta.
Photo 1. Bernadine Newsom Denning, 1972. Photo 2. U.S. Treasury Department, 1977.
More About Bernadine:
- Women, Ethnic Groups Urged to Form Coalitions Lois M. Collins Oct 23, 1991
- Newsmaker: Bernadine Denning, August 1986
- Michigan Women Forward
- Revenue Sharing Director Named, The County News June 6, 1977
- YWCA Detroit, MI website
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 116
