THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

 Elizabeth “Libby” Duncan Koontz

June 3, 1919 – January 6, 1989

First African American to be appointed president of the National Education Association (1967). U.S. Department of Labor. First African American to serve as the director of the Women’s Bureau. Deputy assistant secretary for Labor Employment Standards. United States delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

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Elizabeth Duncan Koontz