Drusilla Dunjee Houston

Drusilla Dunjee Houston (née Drusilla Dunjee; January 20, 1876 - February 8, 1941) was an American writer, historian, educator, journalist, musician, and screenwriter from West Virginia.

Drusilla Dunjee Houston, born January 20, 1876 in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was the daughter of Rev. John and Lydia Taylor Dunjee. She studied classical piano at the Northwestern Conservatory of Music in Minnesota. There were nine siblings, including Roscoe, Irving, Blanche, and Ella. After a younger brother, Roscoe Dunjee, founded the Oklahoma Black Dispatch, Houston served as contributing editor and columnist. She published Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire (1926). She established the Oklahoma Vocational Institute of Fine Arts and Crafts, and was one of the first elementary school teachers in Oklahoma City.

Houston was a co-founder of the Oklahoma YWCA, the Red Cross, the NAACP, and the Dogan Reading Room of Oklahoma, served as president of the latter organization. She died February 8, 1941, in Phoenix, Arizona.

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