Christine Boaz Jones Fulwylie-Bankston (January 16, 1916 – December 9, 1998) was an American educator, poet, publisher, and civil rights activist. She was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame in 1998.
Early life Christine Boaz was born in Paducah, Kentucky. In 1974, she completed doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh.Christine Fulwylie-Bankston, Florida Commission on the Status of Women.
Career Fulwylie taught beginning in 1937. In 1959, she was director of the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA in Louisville,"Teacher Named Head of Wheatley YWCA" Courier-Journal (August 26, 1959): 8. and part of the merger of the black and white branches of the YWCA in Kentucky. She was executive director of the Pittsburgh Negro Education Emergency Drive (NEED) in 1969."TokiTypes" Pittsburgh Courier (June 14, 1969): 11. via Newspapers.com She moved to Florida in 1981, and started a tutoring program in Pensacola.
Books of poetry by Fulwylie include Steps to Free Worlds (1979),Christine B. Jones Fulwylie, Steps to Free Worlds (Dorrance & Co. 1979). In Whom We Trust (1987),Christine B. J. Fulwylie, In Whom We Trust (New South Press 1987). Different Colored Dreams (1994),Christine B. Jones Fulwylie, Different Colored Dreams (Boaz-Fulwylie Press 1994). and Her Share: A Chronicle of Relationships During the Growth of America (1998).Christine Fulwylie, 'Her Share: A Chronicle of Relationships During the Growth of America' (Boaz-Fulwylie Press 1998). She assisted in the writing of Beyond the Storm: An Extraordinary Journey (1997), a memoir by Florida midwife Gladys Nichols Milton,Gladys Milton and Christine Fulwylie, Beyond the Storm: An Extraordinary Journey (Boaz-Fulwylie Press 1997). and co-edited the 1993 anthology, When Black Folks was Colored: A Collection of Memoirs and Poems by Black Americans.Ora Wills, Christine Fulwylie, Mamie Webb Hixon, eds., When Black Folks was Colored: A Collection of Memoirs and Poems by Black Americans (African-American Heritage Society 1993).
Personal life Christine Boaz married her second husband, DeLos Peyton Fulwylie, in 1970."TokiTypes" Pittsburgh Courier (September 12, 1970): 12. via Newspapers.com She was widowed when Fulwylie died in 1987.
Fulwylie-Bankston died in 1998, aged 82 years. That same year, she was named to the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.
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External links A 1965 image of Christine Jones Fulwylie by Charles "Teenie" Harris, in collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art