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Thu, 04.14.1938

Gloria Randle Scott, Youth Administrator born.

Gloria Randle Scott

*Gloria Randle Scott was born on April 14, 1938. She is a Black educator and youth administrator.

Gloria Dean was born and raised in Houston, Texas; in 1959, she became the first African American to receive a degree in zoology from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Higher Education in 1965. Dean was president of the Girl Scouts from 1975 to 1978 and remains on the board of directors. In 1993, Gloria Randall Scott, now married, was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

Scott was featured in the 1989 photobook I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America. She was president of Bennett College, serving from 1987 until 2001.


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