Lady Bird Johnson's lunch meetings of "Women Doers", joining singer Eartha Kitt and others to discuss juvenile delinquency and the Vietnam War. In 1969, she was honored by Wilson College with an honorary doctorate. In 1971, she was honored by the National Council of Negro Women, at the same ceremony honoring Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Watson, and Elizabeth Duncan Koontz. In 1975, Washington hosted a luncheon in honor of visiting first lady of Zambia, Betty Kaunda, at the Museum of African Art, attended by Cecilia Suyat Marshall, Roselyn P. Epps, Dorothy Height, Helen Elsie Austin, and other noted women in Washington. Washington was one of the participants in a recorded symposium, Kin & Communities, at the Smithsonian Institution in 1977, alongside Rosalynn Carter, Alex Haley, Hubert Humphrey, Margaret Mead, and Sidney Dillon Ripley. Personal life Bennetta Bullock married Walter Washington in 1941. They had a daughter, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, who became a sociology professor and a biographer of Josephine Baker. Bennetta Bullock Washington died from cardiac arrest in 1991, aged 73 years, in Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia State Board of Education (DCSBOE) offers a Bennetta Bullock Washington Scholarship, named in her memory. References External links A photograph of Walter Washington, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy, and Bennetta Washington in a crowd, in the Washington Star Photograph Collection, DC Public Library. A photograph of Walter Washington, Bennetta Washington, David Allen Clark, Helen Brooke Seldon, and Theresa F. Brown, at the LeDroit Park Day City Proclamation, circa 1980, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. A photograph of Muriel and Otto Snowden and the Washingtons, at Freedom House's 20th anniversary Snowden reception, from Northeastern University Libraries. An oral history interview with Walter Washington and Bennetta Bullock Washington, conducted in 1971 by T. H. Baker, and housed at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. 1918 births 1991 deaths American educators Howard University alumni Catholic University of America alumni