Jessie Covington Dent, pianist and educator
In 1929, she accepted the position of Head of the Piano Department at Bishop College in Marshall, Texas.. "During those two years," Mrs. Dent recalled, "I became engaged and married Albert Dent.
The pianist also had a family. Ernestine Jessie Covington met her husband, businessman Albert Walter Dent, in the late 1920s while teaching at Bishop. The couple married in 1931. Their first son, future writer and civil-rights activist Thomas Covington Dent, was born in 1932. She retired from the concert circuit in 1936 at the age of thirty-two, after the birth of her second son, Benjamin Albert Dent. Their last son, Walter Jesse Dent, was born in 1939.
The Dents moved to New Orleans in 1932 after Albert Dent was named hospital administrator of Flint-Goodridge Hospital, the only medical facility for the city’s African-American residents. Then in 1940 Dillard University named Dent its third president, a position he held for twenty-nine years; he retired in 1969.
In 1929, she accepted the position of Head of the Piano Department at Bishop College in Marshall, Texas.. "During those two years," Mrs. Dent recalled, "I became engaged and married Albert Dent.
The pianist also had a family. Ernestine Jessie Covington met her husband, businessman Albert Walter Dent, in the late 1920s while teaching at Bishop. The couple married in 1931. Their first son, future writer and civil-rights activist Thomas Covington Dent, was born in 1932. She retired from the concert circuit in 1936 at the age of thirty-two, after the birth of her second son, Benjamin Albert Dent. Their last son, Walter Jesse Dent, was born in 1939.
The Dents moved to New Orleans in 1932 after Albert Dent was named hospital administrator of Flint-Goodridge Hospital, the only medical facility for the city’s African-American residents. Then in 1940 Dillard University named Dent its third president, a position he held for twenty-nine years; he retired in 1969.
Jessie Covington Dent, pianist and educator
In 1929, she accepted the position of Head of the Piano Department at Bishop College in Marshall, Texas.. "During those two years," Mrs. Dent recalled, "I became engaged and married Albert Dent.
The pianist also had a family. Ernestine Jessie Covington met her husband, businessman Albert Walter Dent, in the late 1920s while teaching at Bishop. The couple married in 1931. Their first son, future writer and civil-rights activist Thomas Covington Dent, was born in 1932. She retired from the concert circuit in 1936 at the age of thirty-two, after the birth of her second son, Benjamin Albert Dent. Their last son, Walter Jesse Dent, was born in 1939.
The Dents moved to New Orleans in 1932 after Albert Dent was named hospital administrator of Flint-Goodridge Hospital, the only medical facility for the city’s African-American residents. Then in 1940 Dillard University named Dent its third president, a position he held for twenty-nine years; he retired in 1969.
In 1929, she accepted the position of Head of the Piano Department at Bishop College in Marshall, Texas.. "During those two years," Mrs. Dent recalled, "I became engaged and married Albert Dent.
The pianist also had a family. Ernestine Jessie Covington met her husband, businessman Albert Walter Dent, in the late 1920s while teaching at Bishop. The couple married in 1931. Their first son, future writer and civil-rights activist Thomas Covington Dent, was born in 1932. She retired from the concert circuit in 1936 at the age of thirty-two, after the birth of her second son, Benjamin Albert Dent. Their last son, Walter Jesse Dent, was born in 1939.
The Dents moved to New Orleans in 1932 after Albert Dent was named hospital administrator of Flint-Goodridge Hospital, the only medical facility for the city’s African-American residents. Then in 1940 Dillard University named Dent its third president, a position he held for twenty-nine years; he retired in 1969.
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