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Leila Young Payne

Leila Young Payne (Nov 1881, Abbeville?, South Carolina - 22, Mar 1969, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was the daughter of the second marriage of former slave Jane Young. Her father was Thomas L Young, Presbyterian minister. Much of Payne's life remains undocumented but circa 1902 Leila married Henry Power Payne Sr in Washington, DC. Already in 1903 her comings and goings were noted in the society pages of The Pittsburgh Courier starting with taking trips to see a kin in DC and Abbeville, and entertaining guests. Their son Henry P Payne Jr was also born in South Carolina. In spring of 1912, Leila and young Henry Jr were visiting family and friends in DC and heard `Abdu’l-Bahá’s presentation at the Bethel Literary and Historical Association - a talk she long remembered. She has been called the third black Bahá'í of Washington DC. Perhaps more properly she should be considered the first black Bahá'í of Pittsburgh and perhaps the first of Pennsylvania.

From about 1922 Payne begins to appear consistently in community service and women’s clubs adding to her social engagements hosting guests in her home and visiting others. The first appearance is through a branch of the Urban League in Pittsburgh. The circa 1924 the family entering the mortuary business. 1925 was a big year for Payne. She performed on a radio program, hosted Louis Gregory for a talk about the Bahá'í Faith in her home, and was elected president of the Charity Club of Pittsburgh, a position she held into 1929. Between many other events across 1927-1929 Payne was visible in a variety of situations as a Bahá'í. She encountered fellow Pennsylvanian black Baha'i and HBCU Cheyney president, Leslie Pinckney Hill. This was capped off by a tour of many meetings around Chicago covered in Baha'i News, The Pittsburgh Courier, and The New York Age in 1929. A decrease in social engagements followed the onset of the Great Depression though she continued a mix of black society events and Bahá'í meetings. Coming out of the Depression, in the spring of 1933 the Bahá'ís of Pittsburgh elected an Assembly with Payne as a member. Payne was also part of submitting a universal arms reduction petition to the mayor and President Roosevelt for the Women’s International League for Peace (WIL). Payne's involvement in WIL increased over the next several years into 1939 while at the same time she was active in black society issues such as the need for a hospital to serve the black population but when her husband died she took up being the director of the mortuary. She still managed a couple appearances in a couple years but following the death of her son Henry Jr in November 1942, she made only an appearance a decade or so before her death in 1969.

Born, raised, and married[edit]

Leila Young was the daughter of the second marriage of former slave Jane Young.[1][2] Her father was Thomas L Young, Presbyterian minister,[3] who worked for the board of missions for freedmen of the Presbyterian church and who had been given an education by her slave owners.[3] Thomas had died by 1900.[1] Jane was born in Edgefield, South Carolina,[3] in about 1835, bore 11 children of whom 5 were alive in 1900.[1] Her first husband was Dennis Williams who died in the early 1870s,[3] but was father to Leila's elder brother Sam.[1] "Leila" was known by many names and misspellings and nicknames along the way but it is the name she used most often and on legal documents towards the end of her life. She was born between 1880 and 1885, according to the various sources, but clearly she was Thomas’s daughter. She was born in South Carolina - the 1900 census places the extended and blended family living in Abbeville, South Carolina. Later her mother was living in Sumpter, South Carolina,[4] before moving to live with Payne in 1924.

Married life[edit]

Much of Payne's life remains undocumented but circa 1902 Leila married Henry Power Payne Sr in Washington, DC.[5] Among the Census’ Henry is variously from Ohio or West Virginia. Already in 1903 she is taking trips to see a brother in DC and visiting her mother in Abbeville,[6] and did so other times,[7] and other times she’s hosting guests - artists, school principals, kin and friends - at the 2703 Bedford Ave home,[8] a place that today is in the midst of the Dwayne Cooper Garden of Hope community urban farm. Before it was a farm it was the site of a public housing community and before that it appears to be a set of homes.[9] The 1910 Census has her married to Henry P Payne, had a son Henry P Payne Jr, who was born in South Carolina, and Sr who was working in the Post Office.[10] In 1911 Payne chaired a musicale at a multi-church Presbyterian event in Pittsburgh. [11]

The Bahá'í Faith[edit]

Though the Bahá'ís date their community in Pittsburgh to 1909,[12] Leila Payne encountered the religion going to Washington, DC, in 1912.

In March 30, 1912, Leila and Henry Jr were off to DC "through the Easter holidays" and on into May visiting kin and friends and staying with two families[13] then leaving for Sumpter where her mother lived[14][4] where they visited through June.[15] Through whatever connection, Payne heard of `Abdu’l-Bahá’s presentation at the premeir African-American social institition of Washington DC, Bethel Literary and Historical Association, which she attended on April 23.[16]p206

‘Abdu’l-Bahá's talk,[17] opened with: 

"As I stand here tonight and look upon this assembly, I am reminded curiously of a beautiful bouquet of violets gathered together in varying colors, dark and light."

He addressed the nobility of science and its virtue for humanity above that of the animal and attirbuted the fact of intelligence to a supernatural source and aclaimed science as a gift from God. 

"All blessings are divine in origin, but none can be compared with this power of intellectual investigation and research, which is an eternal gift producing fruits of unending delight."

He included the arts and sciences both as party to this "eternal gift" of "intellectional investigation and research" and lauded that kind of work: 

"The man of science is perceiving and endowed with vision, whereas he who is ignorant and neglectful of this development is blind. The investigating mind is attentive, alive; the callous and indifferent mind is deaf and dead. A scientific man is a true index and representative of humanity, for through processes of inductive reasoning and research he is informed of all that appertains to humanity, its status, conditions and happenings."

He then went on to demonstrating evidences of how humanity was freer than the material world since we could find the processes that made things happen and choose where and how to manifest them. Then he continued: 

"How shall we utilize these gifts and expend these bounties? By directing our efforts toward the unification of the human race. We must use these powers in establishing the oneness of the world of humanity, appreciate these virtues by accomplishing the unity of whites and blacks, devote this divine intelligence to the perfecting of amity and accord among all branches of the human family so that under the protection and providence of God the East and West may hold each other’s hands and become as lovers." and allowing, even appreciating our diversity, saying "Flowers may be variegated in colors, but they are all flowers of one garden."

He continued: 

"And now as I look into your faces, I am reminded of trees varying in color and form but all bearing luscious and delectable fruits, fragrant and delightful to the inner and outer senses. The radiance and spirituality of this meeting is through the favor of God. Our hearts are uplifted in thankfulness to Him."

Payne wrote of this talk saying it "left its imprint on my memory for ever".[16]p206 It was discussed and echoed a number of times in black society.[18] Payne has been called the third black Bahá'í of Washington DC.[16]p206 Perhaps more properly she should be considered the first black Bahá'í of Pittsburgh - with two others dating back to 1931 - and perhaps the first of Pennsylvania.[16]p205

In May `Abdu’l-Bahá stopped in Pittsburgh where He stayed at the Hotel Schenley and was attended by Dr. Zia Bagdadi.[19] Payne was in South Carolina then being received by the Federation of Negro Women’s Clubs in Orangeburg, South Carolina.[15]

In 1917 Henry registered for the draft for WWI noted as still working for the Post Office and the family living on Center Avenue in Pittsburgh.[20] The 1920 Census has the same three in the family.[21]

In 1921 a step brother from DC aided in the care of his sister in Pittsburgh during a protracted illness of hers.[22]

Social work, meetings, and travels[edit]

From about 1922 Payne begins to appear consistently in community service and women’s clubs adding to her social engagements hosting guests in her home and visiting others as well.[23] This first appearance was through a branch of the Urban League in Pittsburgh at which time she was one of three assistants to the executive secretary heading a campaign to raise funds for a summer camp for boys though there was some hope of establishing one for girls too. In the meantime, the Urban League branch had arranged for a free dental clinic and there was an ongoing general call and meetings on the education of the children and becoming teachers.

March to April 1923 Henry Sr made a bid for the state legislature[24] while in April Payne was one of the singers at a church concert.[25] In the winter of 1923-4 Payne visited kin in Virginia,[26] however, in February 1924 a step brother of her mother’s first marriage died in Pittsburgh.[27] Though officially these were step siblings sharing her mother, Payne is consistently called sister to these Williams siblings so the family was close. The family was soon visible entering the mortuary business. Following loosing that brother in February, in March Payne is noted particularly contributing to another funeral arrangement.[28] In May Payne assisted in a wedding.[29] From 1924 most of the coverage of Payne's activities comes from the African-American Pittsburgh Courier, though occasionally she is visible in other newspapers. In September Payne's mother Jane moved in with her from Sumpter.[4] And this is when the family moved to 2701 Wylie Ave, just a couple blocks from the circa 1912 home on Bedford Ave. In April 1925 Henry is noted publicly in thanks for a funeral he managed.[30] On May 31 we have mention of Payne hosting Louis G Gregory for a talk about the Bahá'í Faith, having come from Somerville, Massachusetts, and giving “an impressive talk" to a group of men and women.[31] In the summer of 1925 Henry Sr was a member of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World as an “Exalted Ruler”.[32] In September Henry Jr went to attend a professional embalmer’s school for mortuaries.[33] In October Payne begins[34] an extended presence in the newspapers as the new president of the Charity Club of Pittsburgh which contributed to a Home for the Aged, a YWCA, charity to the poor and orphans among many other services.[35] She held the position into 1929.[36]

In February 1926 her mother Jane Young died while staying with a daughter in New York City, though the funeral was arranged in Pittsburgh through Henry's facility.[3] She also began to be visible with the Lucy Stone League though in this she was often visible with her husband.[37] In November Payne was one of the patronesses selling tickets for attending the Marion Anderson performance held as a fundraiser for the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.[38]

In June 1927 Payne visited a brother in Ohio.[39] Though there was no delegate to the 1927 national Bahá'í convention in Chicago from Pittsburgh, noted as a “lack of response” from there,[40] and Albert Vail, already a co-leader of the nationally sponsored Race Amity Conventions and other travel-teaching activity having visited Pittsburgh earlier in the year,[41] but in August comes the next public mention of Payne as a Bahá'í, now more than hosting Bahá'í meetings, and was done so in both The New York Age[42] and The Pittsburgh Courier.[43] She is going to the national conference of Bahá'ís; this was a Race Amity Convention[44] held in Green Acre though in the newspapers she is listed as a “peace delegate” after which she intended to visit in Boston and New York. Just previously the Paynes had entertained house guests who then moved to West Virginia.[45] In the convention she would have seen fellow Pennsylvanian HBCU Cheyney leader Leslie Pinckney Hill on stage with Alfred E Lunt, and Hill’s talk was “The New Negro”.[46][44] Hill had encountered and developped working knowledge of the religion also back to 1912 as well.[47] Hill had attended Race Amity Conventions back to 1924,[48] and worked with Bahá'ís on further presentations.[49] That winter Payne organized a vesper service at the YWCA at which a Bahá'í gave a talk on the Faith.[50]

A 1928 city directory place the family living at the same address and profession.[51] In February 1928 Payne's son Henry Jr was reported recovering from a prolonged and serious illness living in Buffalo.[52] In April the Paynes were among those on a guest list of a large party in Pittsburgh,[53] and then a week later Payne is a contributing either in song or reciting at a fundraiser for the Home of the Aged and Infirm Colored Women.[54] In May Henry Jr finished his embalming schools and returned to Pittsburgh taking up work under his father’s mortuary business[55] and near the same week Henry Sr wrote to the editor a highly race-partisan letter thanking those who supported his run for state legislature in a majority black district that was represented by "a Jew and an Irishman" and found those of the "race" working for those leaders a "Judas".[56] In September the Paynes hosted Bahá'í Mrs. Alexander Martin of Cleveland[57][16]pp140, 254 for a week on her way home from a Muncie, Indiana, inter-racial conference. During that winter Henry Sr and Jr were injured in a car crash returning from an early morning funeral and later Leila was visible at some fundraisers.[58]

1929 would be the peak of Bahá'í activity visible in the newspapers for Payne. In April 21, 1929, Payne was already running a children’s group “The Rose Garden” and held a meeting for parents and friends.[59] The May Courier coverage of the meeting which was held on Ridvan noted the main speaker of the event was Mrs. Harlan Ober with a talk about spiritual gardens and her travels to California, New York, and the Holy Land where she also saw gardens. Music performances of various kinds added to the event and Harlan also spoke. There was a reception held afterwards at which Payne introduced the speakers again. Then Payne attended the Bahá'í national convention.[60] Baha’i News then also mentioned Payne's service to children.[61] The convention itself was much to do about the importance and progress needed on the Bahá'í House of Worship. Payne’s work in the Rose Garden was noted in the Star of the West coverage as well.[62] Dr Zia Bagdadi summarized Payne's extended stay in the Chicago area to the Bahá'í Interracial Committee and was reported the next year.[63] Payne attending meetings of Bahá'ís and black civic groups and clubs in several communities - Chicago, Evanston, and Wilmette (where she stayed a week) and other towns - as well as being given receptions such as by Louis Bourgeois, architect of the Bahá'í House of Worship. She visited with the Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, the (Jane Addams?) Unity Center, the Phyliss Wheatly Club, the Fraternal Spiritualist Church, and a group of Christian Scientists. From there Shelley Parker drover her to Muskegon, MI, where she attended a special integrated meeting there. The trip was also highlighted in the Pittsburgh Courier.[64] Amidst other social club events the rest of the summer[65] in September she went on trip to promote the Faith in Alliance, Ohio, as guests of the Dickerson family.[66]

Great Depression[edit]

The stock market which had been in trouble since March but had recovered occasionally suddenly and severely collapsed mid-October. Wall Street Crash of 1929 A couple more social engagements marked the time for Payne.[67] A worker in Payne’s efforts for trying for a seat at the state legislature himself was advanced to try to run for office.[68] In February Payne stated at the Ransom YMCA in New York City, (see Reverdy C. Ransom.)[69] In mid-March 1930 Payne appeared as one of the speakers at the Willing Workers Club[70] followed by one for the New York Union of women's clubs in mid-May.[71] The 1930 Census has her with the family living on Wylie Ave and both men of the family employed as embalmers/undertakes.[72][73] The rest of 1930 passed without known newspaper comment. In March 1931 the Payne mortuary hosted a major funeral[74] and Henry SR was noted taking part in a fundraiser for a “Y” and Payne performed at a church.[75] Later in early December Payne spoke before a Poro Beauty Agents meeting,[76] founded by Annie Malon. Payne attended a January 1932 club meeting sponsored by the Lucy Stone Civic League and the Aurora Reading Club.[77] June a Bahá'í presentation is given at the Lucy Stone Center meeting.[78] Another several months go by without notice until the Payne’s host kin and social events carry on August through October.[79] In November when Alice Parker hosted a series of 9 firesides that carried on until late December there was one talk by Payne on “The Eternal Christ”.[80] In 1932 Pittsburgh hosted a Race Amity Convention assisted by the local branch of the Urban League by the small population of Bahá'ís.[16]p190

Amidst social events in the spring of 1933 with Payne,[81] the Bahá'ís of Pittsburgh also elected an Assembly with Payne a member.[82] In May Payne was part of a group with a universal arms reduction petition signed by Pittsburgh citizens presented to the mayor and President Roosevelt for the Women’s International League for Peace (WIL) in cooperation with other clubs.[83] Other social events close out the year,[84] and Payne again appeared amidst the WIL event in mid-February for a fundraising for an “All-Nations Musicale”[85] which was done in May.[86] Other social events had Payne participating as well.[87] While that was finishing up the Bahá'ís initiated another round of meetings and this time one was hosted by Payne in May as well,[88] which included co-Assembly member[82] Walter Buchanan. However, in June a brother of Payne’s in New York City died and he was buried in Pittsburgh as well.[89] Other social events carried on the rest of the year including a Howard University branch club meeting for which Payne oversaw the refreshments table[90] and another Peace League musical was coordinated coming out of the winter into spring of 1935[91] amidst other events into the summer[92] including joining with others urging neutrality in the burgeoning troubles in Europe,[93] and the leadership of the Jane Addams Peace Center with which Payne would be noted.[94] Payne was noted among those lending support in the case of Angelo Herndon,[95] and a member of the Pittsburgh branch of the Women's International League early in 1936.[96]

In April 1936 Payne was noted as a vice-chair of the Pittsburgh chapter of WIL.[97] Circa 1936 there are three known black Bahá'ís in Pittsburgh recorded in a national survey done through assemblies,[16]p205 and an Assembly is noted in 1937 as well.[16]p358 Payne was also a member of the lead staff of the Pittsburgh branch of the Scottsboro Defense Committee in 1936,[98] and a state WIL delegate.[99] WIL discussion of a hospital followed.[100] The summer of 1936 had many meetings about peace being established by the Jane Addams Peace Center and the WIL supplementing the efforts.[101] That pattern repeated in 1937 as well[102] Henry Payne Sr died in 1937,[103] and may be a cause of her participation in the drive to get a hospital to serve colored people the next couple years.[104] Leila, and son Henry Jr though Le Leila lia was listed as the director and Henry Jr as the embalmer, took up the business.[105] In September 1939 they took a trip to New York together and down to see a kin in Sumpter.[106] Payne ended 1939 ill.[107]

Retiring from society[edit]

With being the funeral director, she began to be less visible in social/club events. She attended a funeral for an in-law in Sumpter SC in the fall of 1940.[108] She did make a single known appearance in 1941 for a fundraiser,[109] but almost none after her son died in November 1942.[110][111] In December 1942 she was part of a committee for the 80th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.[112] In 1944 she contributed to a birthday who listed her among many “whether they like the publicity or not".[113] A decade later she was noted in 1954 for a foster son of her’s that died,[114] and in 1956 she assisted for a Howard University Alumni chapter meeting.[115]

Funerals run out of the Payne Funeral Home occur annually through the period until into 1949.[116] Though it moved in 1946 to a new location.

Leila Payne died in March 1969[117] and is buried next to her husband and son.[118]

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