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class="infobox-caption">Joanna Shields graduating from <a href="/wiki/Howard_University" title="Howard University">Howard University</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">July 7, 1884<sup id="cite_ref-PEARLS_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEARLS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Catharpin,_Virginia" title="Catharpin, Virginia">Catharpin, Virginia</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a><sup id="cite_ref-PEARLS_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEARLS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">February 2, 1965 (aged 80)<sup id="cite_ref-PEARLS_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEARLS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/New_York,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="New York, New York">New York, New York</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a><sup id="cite_ref-PEARLS_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEARLS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">founder of <a href="/wiki/Alpha_Kappa_Alpha" title="Alpha Kappa Alpha">Alpha Kappa Alpha</a> Sorority, Incorporated; <a href="/wiki/Teacher" title="Teacher">Teacher</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Dr. Samuel J. Shields<sup id="cite_ref-PEARLS_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEARLS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Vivian, Samuel, Jr.; Martha, Thomas, Hanna and Landrum<sup id="cite_ref-PEARLS_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEARLS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Carrie Lucas and Charles Berry<sup id="cite_ref-PEARLS_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEARLS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Joanna Mary Berry Shields</b> (July 7, 1884 - February 2, 1965) was one of the seven members of the sophomore class of <a href="/wiki/Alpha_Kappa_Alpha" title="Alpha Kappa Alpha">Alpha Kappa Alpha</a> Sorority, Incorporated, the first sorority founded by African-American women. She created a legacy that has continued to generate <a href="/wiki/Social_capital" title="Social capital">social capital</a> for nearly 110 years. </p><p>She served as an educator for more than 20 years, both in the South, where need was especially critical, and in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, where African-American migration had created a new community. </p><p>In addition, she was a leader in civic activities, where her years of accomplishments caused her to be chosen for the New York Mayor's Committee on Human Rights and the Consumers Protective Committee. In her life, Shields demonstrated how African-American sororities supported women "to create spheres of influence, authority and power within institutions that traditionally have allowed African Americans and women little formal authority and real power."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joanna_Berry_Shields&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Joanna Mary Berry was born in <a href="/wiki/Catharpin,_Virginia" title="Catharpin, Virginia">Catharpin, Virginia</a> to Charles and Carrie Lucas Berry. Growing up, Berry attended private schools in <a href="/wiki/Prince_William_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince William County">Prince William County</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Manassas Industrial School in <a href="/wiki/Manassas,_Virginia" title="Manassas, Virginia">Manassas, Virginia</a>, she graduated with high honors.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She attended <a href="/wiki/Howard_University" title="Howard University">Howard University</a>'s preparatory school in 1901, where she gained a high school education.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In those years, only 1/3 of 1% of African Americans and 5% of whites attended any college, and Howard University was considered the top historically black college.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Howard University, Joanna earned a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> degree <i><a href="/wiki/Cum_laude" class="mw-redirect" title="Cum laude">cum laude</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Social_science" title="Social science">social science</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Founding_Alpha_Kappa_Alpha">Founding Alpha Kappa Alpha</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joanna_Berry_Shields&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Founding Alpha Kappa Alpha"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Berry was one of nine women who founded Alpha Kappa Alpha on January 15, 1908. She was the custodian of the chapter's records in 1909.<sup id="cite_ref-PEARLS_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEARLS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After graduation, Joanna Shields was minimally involved for years in Alpha Kappa Alpha activities. </p><p>When Berry relocated to <a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem" class="mw-redirect" title="Winston-Salem">Winston-Salem</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> in 1922, she revived her connection to Alpha Kappa Alpha, by joining Phi Omega, a local graduate chapter.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also volunteered in youth activity through Alpha Kappa Alpha.<sup id="cite_ref-McNealey48_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McNealey48-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was a chapter delegate to the 1935 Richmond Boulé and received a special <a href="/wiki/Diamond" title="Diamond">diamond</a> pin for founding Alpha Kappa Alpha.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After moving to New York in 1937, Shields was a member with Tau Omega in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> until her death.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also kept in contact with fellow founder <a href="/wiki/Lavinia_Norman" title="Lavinia Norman">Lavinia Norman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Teaching_and_civic_leadership">Teaching and civic leadership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joanna_Berry_Shields&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Teaching and civic leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After earning her degree, Berry returned to Virginia and taught at her old school, Manassas Institute. In 1911, Berry moved to <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, where she taught at Slater Normal School, creating generations of teachers, one of the most critical and prestigious professions in the South. Later the school expanded its curriculum to become a full university, now called <a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem_State_University" title="Winston-Salem State University">Winston-Salem State University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Berry met her husband, Samuel J. Shields, in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> in 1913. They had six children together.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Shields family moved to <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>. </p><p>There Joanna Shields worked as an educator at Central School in <a href="/wiki/Darlington,_South_Carolina" title="Darlington, South Carolina">Darlington</a>. In 1920, with financial support of the Rosenwald Fund, she increased the school year for <a href="/wiki/African-American" class="mw-redirect" title="African-American">African-American</a> children from three to six months.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two years later, Shields and her family moved back to Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Shields began to participate more in civic and religious activities. She was secretary at the Wentz Memorial Church and worked with the church's nursery school.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1937 Shields and her family returned to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. There Shields taught <a href="/wiki/English_studies" title="English studies">English</a> at <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a> High School in the <a href="/wiki/Bronx,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Bronx, New York">Bronx</a> until 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shields also was active in community groups, such as the <a href="/wiki/Harlem" title="Harlem">Harlem</a> <a href="/wiki/YMCA" title="YMCA">YMCA</a>, <a href="/wiki/NAACP" title="NAACP">NAACP</a>, Negro History Club, and the <a href="/wiki/National_Council_of_Negro_Women" title="National Council of Negro Women">National Council of Negro Women</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was instrumental as an advocate for consumers and <a href="/wiki/Senior_citizen" class="mw-redirect" title="Senior citizen">senior citizen</a>'s rights by serving on the Mayor's Committee on Human Rights and the Consumers Protective Committee. She worked in the voter's registration movement.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She volunteered to care for the sick and ill by visiting hospitals and <a href="/wiki/Sewing" title="Sewing">sewing</a>. She died on February 2, 1965, in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-VCU_3-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joanna_Berry_Shields&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-PEARLS-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PEARLS_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PEARLS_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PEARLS_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PEARLS_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PEARLS_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PEARLS_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PEARLS_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PEARLS_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMcNealey2006" class="citation book cs1">McNealey, Earnestine G. (2006). <i>Pearls of Service: The Legacy of America's First Black Sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha</i>. Chicago: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Pearls+of+Service%3A+The+Legacy+of+America%27s+First+Black+Sorority%2C+Alpha+Kappa+Alpha&rft.place=Chicago&rft.pub=Alpha+Kappa+Alpha+Sorority%2C+Incorporated&rft.date=2006&rft.aulast=McNealey&rft.aufirst=Earnestine+G.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoanna+Berry+Shields" class="Z3988"></span> p. 47.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tamara L. Brown, Gregory Parks, Clarenda M. Phillips, <i>African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision</i>. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. p. 342.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-VCU-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VCU_3-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080101173952/http://www.studentorg.vcu.edu/thetarho/shields.html">"Joanne Mary Berry Shields"</a>. Theta Rho Chapter at <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Commonwealth_University" title="Virginia Commonwealth University">Virginia Commonwealth University</a> - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.studentorg.vcu.edu/thetarho/shields.html">the original</a> on 2008-01-01<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-11-17</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Joanne+Mary+Berry+Shields&rft.pub=Theta+Rho+Chapter+at+Virginia+Commonwealth+University+-+Alpha+Kappa+Alpha+Sorority%2C+Incorporated&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.studentorg.vcu.edu%2Fthetarho%2Fshields.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoanna+Berry+Shields" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">James D. Anderson,<i><a href="/wiki/The_Education_of_Blacks_in_the_South,_1860%E2%80%931935" title="The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935">The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935</a></i>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1988, p.245</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-McNealey48-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-McNealey48_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McNealey 2006, op. cit., p. 48.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joanna_Berry_Shields&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.studentorg.vcu.edu/thetarho/shields.html">Biography at Virginia Commonwealth University</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080805040513/http://www.aka1908.com/past/">Honoring the Past: Alpha Kappa Alpha Founders</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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