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Martha Bass Holsey founded Athens’ Home for the Colored Children
As you will see in these pages, the stories of Black and white Athenians working together in the early 20th century reveal the inequalities and attitudes of the time. Important examples include Martha Bass Holsey’s “Home for Colored Children,” the Black Mammy Institute, and Judia Jackson Harris’ chapbook, Race Relations.
In 1907, Martha Bass Holsey, a Black seamstress, received financial support from the Athens Women’s Club to establish a daycare center for the children of Black working families.
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An imagined portrait of Martha Bass Holsey by Broderick Flanigan
Cite this Article
McPherson, J. (2026, July 21). Martha Bass Holsey. Complex Cloth. https://complexcloth.org/martha-bass-holsey/
