Education and Employment
Evans attended the University of Toledo, where she majored in fashion design in 1939. The fashion design major did not hold her interest and she left the University of Toledo without a degree. She began a series of teaching appointments in American universities in 1969. During 1969-1970, she served as writer in residence at Indiana University-Purdue, where she taught courses in African-American Literature. The next year, Evans accepted a position as the writer in residence at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. From 1968 to 1973, Evans produced, wrote and directed the television program The Black Experience for WTTV in Indianapolis, Indiana. She received an honorary degree from Marion College in 1975. Evans continued her teaching career at Purdue (1978–1980), at Washington University in Saint Louis (1980), at Cornell University (1981–85), and the State University of New York at Albany (1985–1986).
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