I have found only sketchy information about her life.
She was born in Virginia and graduated from the North
Carolina State Colored Normal School (now Elizabeth City State University) in
1908. The commencement program gives her
name as Fannie Clarine Janieth Targinton (sic).
She apparently attended Howard University in the 1910s and perhaps
worked in Washington D.C. as a social worker.
She moved to New York City in the later 1910s.
The 1940 US Census (the only one in which I found her listed)
had her living in Harlem as a lodger and working as an “independent dressmaker”
Three articles in the New York Age
from the 1940s mention her participation in activities of the Howard University
Club of NY.
As far as I can determine she ever worked as a librarian.
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