Hilda C. Allen

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1935 Hilda C. Allen becomes superintendent of the Efland Home after a poor state report Following a critical June 1935 state inspection and complaints about the home's management, the board's executive committee met in Durham in July and soon hired Hilda C. Allen as superintendent, keeping Lula Henderson as matron. People: Lula B. Henderson, Hilda C. Allen Place: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), 201 Redman Crossing, EflandSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19
2. 1935-1937 Superintendent Hilda Allen sends the girls' Efland Quartette to sing in local churches To raise money and show the home's progress, Hilda Allen taught the girls spirituals and arranged for the Efland Quartette to sing at churches around the area during her superintendency. People: Hilda C. Allen Place: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), 201 Redman Crossing, EflandSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19
3. November 1935 A state mental health survey finds the Efland Home's building failing its girls At Hilda Allen's request, the state welfare board's Division of Mental Health studied the home in November 1935. It urged more vocational training, and reported one bathroom for all, a furnace idle every winter because the basement flooded, a pump that often failed, and barbed wire over every window to stop runaways, which it advised removing. People: Hilda C. Allen Place: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), 201 Redman Crossing, EflandSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19
4. January 1936 Hilda Allen asks the state for help with medical care at the Efland Home When superintendent Hilda Allen raised the need for medical care for the girls at the Efland Home, the state Division of Institutions and Corrections replied on January 13, 1936, only that she should get in touch with the county health officer. Place: Efland · Also mentions: Efland HomeSearch the index · Souls: Lauren N. Henley, Contested Commitment: Policing Black Female Juvenile Delinquency at Efland Home, 1919-1939 (vol. 20, 2018)
5. February 26, 1936 A state field agent tells Hilda Allen the WPA cannot help the Efland Home Hilda Allen asked whether the Works Progress Administration could do manual work at the Efland Home. A field agent of the state Division of Institutions and Corrections answered that the WPA could not approve a project on land deeded to a private body, the North Carolina Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, and that he knew of no other source of aid. Place: Efland · Also mentions: Efland HomeSearch the index · Souls: Lauren N. Henley, Contested Commitment: Policing Black Female Juvenile Delinquency at Efland Home, 1919-1939 (vol. 20, 2018)
6. early May 1937 Hilda Allen resigns as superintendent, leaving Lula Henderson in charge of the Efland Home Saying she could not handle all her duties, Hilda C. Allen resigned in early May 1937 after making real gains in the home's conditions, and matron Lula Henderson took charge. People: Lula B. Henderson, Hilda C. Allen Place: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), 201 Redman Crossing, EflandSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19