Sadie Gray Mays (August 5, 1900 – October 10, 1969) was an African-American social worker, trained at the University of Chicago.

[5] She was a social worker for the Georgia Study of Negro Child Welfare in Atlanta, and for the National Urban League in Tampa, Florida.

[4][6] In the 1930s, while her husband was a dean at Howard University, she was a social worker at the National Youth Administration.

Her talk included a discussion of sexism and internalized misogyny: "Men ask women to do more work for less pay.

"[2] In 1947 she helped to establish and was first president of the Atlanta Association for Convalescent Aged Persons, a non-profit organization created to open Happy Haven, a nursing home for elderly black residents of the city.