Lillian Anderson Turner Alexander (1876–1957) was an educator, social worker, civil rights activist, and club woman active in St. Paul, Minnesota, and New York City.
Her Sunday school training included five years teaching officers, teachers, and students from colored Protestant denominations.
She also traveled to Florida in winter 1913 to train teachers, visit schools, and organize women's and girls' clubs for community improvement.
[1] The last half year of her program conducting research at Wilberforce University and other areas around Ohio, focusing on Physical Anthropology.
Her work, "Votes for Housewives," was published in the August 1915 edition of The Crisis and it was seen as a witty and clever piece.
[3] The National Urban League of New York City recruited Turner, now Alexander, upon her graduation in 1918, and she moved to pursue the job.
[10] Alexander was one of the earliest life members of the NAACP and sat on its board of directors from 1924 to her death.
[2] She was a member of the board of governors of the Warwick State Training School for Boys and the National Housing Conference.
[2] In his autobiography, Roy Wilkins wrote about Sally Alexander, "an old friend from St. Paul," who has several details that match Lillian Turner.
In 1931, the Alexanders hosted a black-tie dinner for Wilkins and his wife Aminda "Minnie" Badeau.
Wilkins describes her as a formidable woman with a fierce interest in the NAACP, who had become a close friend and ally of W. E. B.