Richetta Randolph Wallace

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Richetta Randolph Wallace, circa 1930 was the private secretary to Mary White Ovington, writer, suffragist and one of the founders of the NAACP. She was also private secretary to James Weldon Johnson, attorney, poet, author of "Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and composer of "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," and also to the executive secretary of the NAACP, Walter White.

 

Born in Virginia in 1884, Ms. Randolph moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in 1933 and remained until her death in 1971. Photo: Brooklyn Historical Society