Eva Lois Allmon was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Detroit, Michigan, the only child of Exzelma Lowe Allmon. Her father worked for the post office.[1][2] She graduated from Detroit's Northern High School.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree at Wayne State University in 1961, and a master's degree and a Ph.D. at Michigan State University.[4] Her 1977 dissertation was titled "Teacher Perceptions and Expectations of the Locus-of-Control and Level of Aspiration of Upper Level Elementary White and Black Students; and Student Self-Ratings of Locus-of-Control and Level of Aspiration".[5]
Evans taught school in Lansing, Michigan,[6] and was active in the racial desegregation of Lansing's schools.[1][7] She was the first woman to serve as Deputy Superintendent of the Lansing Public Schools.[8][9] She retired from the district in 1995.[10] “I love the Lansing Schools, I do,” she said in 2018. “I don’t know that I did everything right, but I did the best I could, for as long as I could.”[11]
Evans was elected first vice president in 1990 of Alpha Kappa Alpha,[12][13] and became the 24th international president, serving as the sorority's executive from 1994 to 1998.[14][15] She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2008, she gave an oral history interview to The HistoryMakers, a centennial program of Alpha Kappa Alpha.[16]
In 1985, Evans was appointed by governor James Blanchard to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission.[12][13] In 1991 Evans received the ATHENA Leadership Award from the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce.[17] and to the state's Council for the Humanities.[1] Later in life, she was founder and president of a retirement community in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.[18]
Eva Lois Allmon married Howard Evans in 1964.[19] She died in 2020, aged 85 years, in Ohio.[20][21] The Dr. Eva L. Evans Welcome Center in Lansing was named in her honor in 2018.[9][11]Lansing Community College offers the Eva L. Evans Education Scholarship for students in education.[22]
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^Evans, Eva Lois. "Teacher Perceptions and Expectations of the Locus-of-Control and Level of Aspiration of Upper Level Elementary White and Black Students; and Student Self-Ratings of Locus-of-Control and Level of Aspiration" (Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University 1977). via ProQuest
^Brown, Judith (1972-07-21). "Elementary Director Named". Lansing State Journal. p. 13. Retrieved 2021-01-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^Sauer, Mark (1976-02-27). "'Black View' No Stereotype". Lansing State Journal. p. 28. Retrieved 2021-01-16 – via Newspapers.com.