Mazie Hall, 1992-2006

Collins met Mazie B. Hall - educator, mentor, civil-rights activist, and community leader – in about 1950. "Miss Mazie" was born in Tredyffrin in 1902. She graduated from the Tredyffrin-Easttown High School and then from West Chester Normal School. She taught school for many years in New Jersey's Camden School District. Mazie B. Hall joined with Margaret Collins to crusade for fair-housing practices on the Main Line during the 1950s. Their efforts influenced the formation of the Pennsylvania Fair Housing Act, the basis for federal fair-housing laws. They also organized fellowship weekends at the Friends Meeting House in Haverford and at Bryn Mawr College. Her other civic accomplishments include organizing the Mt. Pleasant Civic Association and she was a charter member of the Main Line branch of the Black Business and Professional Women Association. Her interests in gardening led to her involvement as a charter member of the Community Garden Club of Wayne. As a child-advocate, she created innovative mentoring and tutoring programs for youngsters in the Mt. Pleasant community during the 1960s.