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Education was a way to obtain equality and become established when considering class. [6] Early efforts highlight the importance of eliminating inequality and education being a tool to succeed that. The African-American struggle for education was rooted in the desire to bring about social and political equality and to defeat racial prejudice. [7]
Susie King Taylor (August 6, 1848 – October 6, 1912) was an American nurse, educator and memoirist. Born into slavery in coastal Georgia, she is known for being the first African-American nurse during the American Civil War.
Mary Jane Patterson (September 12, 1844 – September 24, 1894) was an American educator born to a previously enslaved mother and a freeborn father. [1] She is notable because she is claimed to be the first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree.
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February 1818 – May 1907) [1] was an African-American seamstress, activist, and writer who lived in Washington, D.C. She was the personal dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. [2]
In this memoir released during the Reconstruction era, American educator Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) shares his experience of being born into slavery in the period leading up to the Civil War ...
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.
First African-American to attend the University of Alabama: Autherine Lucy. [36] She and Pollie Anne Myers had previously been the first black students admitted to the university, but had to undergo a three-year legal campaign to attend, and the university then found a pretext to block Myers's eventual admittance. [37]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American educators. It includes educators that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents