Mamie Geraldine Neale Bledsoe

Mamie Geraldine Neale Bledsoe (1900 – March 1, 1991) was an American educator and civil rights activist, director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Division of Michigan.

[1] She earned a teaching certificate at Trenton Normal School in 1919, and was enrolled in a summer course at Rutgers University,[2] where she met and dated Paul Robeson.

[4] Bledsoe moved to Michigan with her husband in the 1920s and worked as a teacher in an adult literacy program.

She was a member of the Detroit Study Club, a black women's literary organization in the city.

She served on the board of the Detroit chapter of the NAACP and in the Women's Division of the United Negro College Fund.