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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 ...
Marva Delores Collins (née Knight; August 31, 1936 – June 24, 2015) was an American educator.Collins is best known for creating Westside Preparatory School, a widely acclaimed private elementary school in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1975.
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]
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights figure.. In 1854, Graham insisted on her right to ride on an available New York City streetcar at a time when all such companies were private and most operated segregated cars.
This list of famous African American women to know in 2024 includes singers, actors, athletes, entrepreneurs, politicians and more inspiring modern Black women.
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
Anna "Annie" Julia Haywood was born enslaved in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1858.She and her mother, Hannah Stanley Haywood, were enslaved by George Washington Haywood (1802–1890), one of the sons of North Carolina's longest-serving state Treasurer John Haywood, who helped found the University of North Carolina, but whose estate later was forced to repay missing funds.
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.