Dorothy Hadley Bayen

Dorothy Hadley Bayen
Born
Dorothy Pauline Hadley

(1906-11-20)20 November 1906
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Died7 April 1988(1988-04-07) (aged 81)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma materHoward University
Known forPan-Africanism, Ethiopian World Federation
SpouseMalaku E. Bayen (married 1931 - 1940)
ChildrenMalaku Bayen Jr.

Dorothy Hadley Bayen (20 November 1906 – 7 April 1988) was an African-American activist and journalist who became a war correspondent from 1935 to 1936 during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War whilst she was living in Ethiopia. Bayen fled Ethiopia with her husband Malaku E. Bayen and returned to the United States following the invasion of Addis Ababa, where she devoted her time and energy organising support for the Ethiopian liberation effort until her husband's death in 1940.

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