Alfreda Barnett Duster

CTL-E-6124 · Person · writer · 1904–1983

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Combined Graph record U-07339 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6124.

Alfreda Barnett Duster, born Alfreda Barnett on September 3, 1904, in Chicago, was the youngest daughter of civil rights leaders Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand L. Barnett. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1924 with a bachelor of philosophy degree, married Benjamin C. Duster Jr., and raised five children; widowed at forty, she returned to school for social work. As a Chicago social worker and civic leader she served as a juvenile delinquency prevention coordinator for the State of Illinois, assigned to the Southside Community Committee, administered the girls' program at Camp Illini for underprivileged city children, and later worked for the Woodlawn Community Services Agency and Catalyst for Youth. She was named Mother of the Year in 1950 and 1970 and received a University of Chicago Alumni Association Citation for Public Service and an honorary doctorate from Chicago State University. Her enduring editorial achievement was editing and publishing her mother's autobiography as Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (University of Chicago Press, 1970), work the sources say she pursued for twenty-five years after her mother's death. She died April 2, 1983, in Chicago, aged seventy-eight.

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• Also known as: Alfreda M. Barnett Duster, Alfreda Barnett

Notes

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Relationships

• Ida B. Wells — child of
  Alfreda M. Barnett Duster was the youngest daughter of Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand L. Barnett, as stated in her record

Sources

• Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, "Alfreda Barnett Duster Oral History Interview" (Black Women Oral History Project; interview March 8, 1978; accessed 2026-10-16) — Alfreda Barnett Duster (1904–1983), social worker and community activist in Chicago; daughter of Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand L. Barnett; Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Coordinator, Southside Community Committee; girls' program at Camp Illini; Woodlawn Community Services Agency and Catalyst for Youth; edited and published Crusade for Justice (University of Chicago Press, 1970) — https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/alfreda-barnett-duster-oral-history-interview (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Alfreda Duster" (accessed 2026-10-16) — Alfreda M. Duster, born September 3, 1904, Chicago, died April 2, 1983 (aged 78), Billings Hospital, Chicago, of a brain hemorrhage; youngest daughter of Wells and Barnett; University of Chicago 1924; widowed at 40, five children; Mother of the Year 1950 and 1970; edited Crusade for Justice over 25 years, published 1970 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfreda_Duster (build store)

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