Vera Chandler Foster

Vera Chandler Foster (August 9, 1915 – February 1, 2001) was an American social worker. She worked for the United States Veterans Administration in Tuskegee, Alabama, and served on the national boards of the YWCA, Planned Parenthood, and Common Cause.

Early life Vera Adrienne Chandler was born in Indianola, Mississippi, the daughter of William Chandler and Mariah Chandler. She grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. She graduated from Omaha's Central High School in 1931, and from Fisk University in 1936. She earned a master's degree in social work at University of Chicago, and a PhD from the University of Nebraska in 1940, with a dissertation titled "A study of 100 adolescent Negro children in Omaha with especial reference to the family". In 1941 she was a Rosenwald Fellow at the University of Minnesota. She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta.

Career Foster was Dean of Women and taught sociology courses at Langston University in Oklahoma. She was active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF),

In 1981, she joined the White House Conference on Aging and the Virginia Advisory Commission on Aging. "'Boswellianism': A technique in the Restriction of Negro Voting" (1949)

Personal life Vera Chandler married academic administrator Luther H. Foster Jr. in 1941. They had two children, Adrienne and Hilton. Luther Foster died in 1994. Vera Chandler Foster died in 2001, aged 85 years, in Alexandria, Virginia.