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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]
Cecile Yvonne Conolly CBE (1939 – 27 January 2021) was a Jamaican teacher, who became the United Kingdom's first female black headteacher in 1969, aged just 29-years-old. She arrived in the UK in 1963, as part of the Windrush generation, and went on to have a career in education that spanned over 40 years. In 2020, Conolly was made a CBE for ...
Mary Smith Peake. Mary Smith Peake, born Mary Smith Kelsey (1823 – February 22, 1862), was an American teacher, humanitarian and a member of the black elite in Hampton, best known for starting a school for the children of former slaves starting in the fall of 1861 under what became known as the Emancipation Oak tree in present-day Hampton, Virginia near Fort Monroe.
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).
John Stewart Rock (October 13, 1825 – December 3, 1866) was an American teacher, doctor, dentist, lawyer and abolitionist, historically associated with the coining of the term "black is beautiful" (thought to have originated from a speech he made in 1858, however historical records now indicate he never actually used the specific phrase on that day). [5]
She moved to East Athens School in 1963, then integrated Chase Street as the first Black teacher in the 1966-67 school year. She later became a counselor at Clarke Middle School and was the ...
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.