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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.
Dunbar was the first public high school for African Americans in the USA. [20] Patterson served as the school's first Black principal, from 1871 to 1872. She was demoted and served as assistant principal under Richard Theodore Greener who was the first Black Harvard University graduate and was the father of Belle da Costa Greene. [21]
Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 – January 27, 1890) was an American schoolteacher and activist. She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut, [1] which became the first school for black girls ("young Ladies and little Misses of color") in the United States.
First African-American woman to charter a bank in the United States [1] Maggie Lena (née Draper Mitchell) Walker (July 15, 1864 – December 15, 1934) was an American businesswoman and teacher. In 1903, Walker became both the first African-American woman to charter a bank and the first African-American woman to serve as a bank president. [ 2 ]
Ida Louise Jackson paved the way for many. She was the first Black teacher in Oakland Public Schools and was the first Black woman certified to teach in the state of California. Some of Dr. Jackson’s written works include Development of Negro Children in Reference to Education (1923) and Librarians' Role in Creating Racial Understanding (1944).
Bessie Burke, c. 1912. Bessie Bruington Burke (March 19, 1891 - 1968) was the first African American teacher and principal hired in the Los Angeles public school system. [1]In 1887, Burke's parents left their farms and teaching jobs in Kansas via a covered wagon.
From 1874 to 1879, Scott, her husband, taught part of the year in county schools; at the time, all teachers at Nashville's colored schools were white. With his wife he tested the system to see if it would hire Black teachers, and so Minnie became the first Black person to take and pass the teachers' exam. [1]
Maria W. Stewart (née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an American writer, lecturer, teacher, and activist from Hartford, Connecticut. She was the first known American woman to publicly lecture on the abolitionist movement. Her speeches and essays contributed to the educational and social advancement of African Americans.