About Jane Schutt
Lived 1913 – 2006 (aged 93). Jane Schutt was an American activist.
Jane Page Menefee Schutt ( – ) was an American civil rights activist in Jackson, Mississippi during the American civil rights movement.
Early life and education Jane Schutt was born on in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Randolph and Gertrude Menefee. She was valedictorian at Langley Junior High School in 1927 and graduated from Eastern High School in 1929. She attended George Washington University from 1929 to 1932. There she met Wallis I. Schutt, an engineering student, and they married in 1934. They had five children and moved around the country for his engineering work. They settled in Jackson, Mississippi in 1942 at 955 Pecan Blvd.
Jane Schutt died on July 23, 2006, at the home of her daughter in Severna Park, Maryland.
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American civil rights activist
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Jane Schutt was born on 2 January 1913 in Washington, D.C..
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Jane Schutt died on 23 July 2006 in Severna Park.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Jane Schutt. https://biography.guide/jane-schutt/
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