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The legacy of notable black women educators is able to be preserved through their own narratives and works. Below is a list of essays, prose, speeches, and more that touch on the black women experience specific to education. 1841 - Ann Plato, "Education" 1886 - Virginia W. Broughton, "Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress ...
She became its first Black principal. [3] [4] [5] She was a lifelong advocate for Black education, helping to found the Colored Woman's League which later became the National Association of Colored Women. [6] [7] A humanitarian, Patterson also devoted time and money to Black institutions in Washington, D.C. [8]
Three African American women earn PhDs within nine days of each other: Georgiana R. Simpson, PhD in German Philology, University of Chicago, June 14, 1921; [19] Sadie Tanner Mossell, PhD in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, June 15, 1921; [20] Eva B. Dykes, PhD in English Language, Radcliffe College, June 22, 1921. [21]
Education portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American women educators . It includes educators that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Fanny Jackson Coppin (October 15, 1837 – January 21, 1913) was an American educator, missionary and lifelong advocate for female higher education.One of the first Black alumnae of Oberlin College, she served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and became the first African American school superintendent in the United States.
Lucy Diggs Slowe (July 4, 1883 [3] – October 21, 1937) was an American educator and athlete, and the first Black woman to serve as Dean of Women at any American university. She was a founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority , the first sorority founded by African-American women.
Maritcha Remond Lyons (May 23, 1848 – January 28, 1929) was an American educator, civic leader, suffragist, and public speaker in New York City and Brooklyn, New York.She taught in public schools in Brooklyn for 48 years, and was the second black woman to serve in their system as an assistant principal.
Sarah Jane Woodson Early, born Sarah Jane Woodson (November 15, 1825 – August 1907), was an American educator, black nationalist, temperance activist and author. A graduate of Oberlin College, where she majored in classics, she was hired at Wilberforce University in 1858 as the first black woman college instructor, and also the first black American to teach at a historically black college or ...