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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.
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.
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).
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.
The family prioritized education and sent Josephine to Cleveland Central High School, where she graduated in 1871. After graduation, she took several teaching courses which then gave her the opportunity to teach at the Mayflower school, making her the first black teacher in the public school system of Cleveland. [2]
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 ...
In 1977, Price was named Utah Mother of the Year - the first black woman to receive the award. [ 2 ] Price served as the first president of the Utah chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) .