Fannie Cobb Carter, Plaque

Title: Fannie Cobb Carter, Plaque
Contributor: Bysterbusch, Hailey
Biographical Text: Bronze plaque with a black background in a pentagon shape with gold raised lettering and a gold border. Motif of a woman’s head with a start at the center on the top of the pentagon.
This plaque was erected four years after the death of Carter, on June 5, 1977, at the Science and Culture Center in Charleston, West Virginia. The National Historic Marker Project to create one hundred plaques each year, honoring prominent black Americans, was started in 1975 and continued for two years due to funding from the Amoco foundation. This plaque has been placed in Charleston as it is Carter’s birthplace.
Text: IN RECOGNITION OF
FANNIE COBB CARTER
Educator, Centenerian, Humanitarian
1977
ERECTED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRO-AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY IN COOPERATION WITH THE AMOCO FOUNDATION, INC.
Date Created: 1977-06-05
Type: English Signage
Bibliographic Citation: Fannie Cobb Carter Tribute by Edward Peeks (1977), The West Virginia Encylcopedia Online

Where are the women?