Born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1925, Frankie Jacobs Gillette was the third of three daughters and a son born to the late Natalie Taylor Jacobs and Frank Walter Jacobs. In 1932, her father, a Baptist minister, was called from Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, to Messiah Baptist Church in Bridgeport, Conn., where Frankie attended local public schools. She was a graduate of Hampton University and Howard University, where she received a Master of Social Work degree.
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