Letitia Woods Brown (née Letitia Christine Woods) was born on October 24, 1915, to Evadne Clark Adam Woods and Matthew Woods in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.[1][2] One of three daughters, Letitia was the second child.[3] The Woodses were a middle-class family; both parents worked as teachers at the Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), an industrial college established by Booker T. Washington.[2][3][4] Matthew Woods was educated at the Tuskegee Institute.