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An African-American teacher. African-American teachers educated African Americans and taught each other to read during slavery in the South. People who were enslaved ran small schools in secret, since teaching those enslaved to read was a crime (see Slave codes). Meanwhile, in the North, African Americans worked alongside Whites. Many ...
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. In 1862, she completed the four-year 'gentlemen's course' at Oberlin College. [2]
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
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.
American expert on the music of Stephen Foster [citation needed] Robert R. Holt: 1917–2024: 106: American psychologist, scholar of psychoanalytic theory [66] Olivia Hooker: 1915–2018: 103: American psychologist, first African-American woman in the U.S. Coast Guard) [67] Emily Howland: 1827–1929: 101: American philanthropist and educator ...
Sarah Louise Delany was born on September 19, 1889, in Lynch's Station, Virginia.She was the second eldest of ten children born to the Rev. Henry Beard Delany (1858–1928), the first black person elected Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, and Nanny Logan Delany (1861–1956), an educator.
We live in a city where the needs of young people are constantly ignored. Case in point is the return of school resource officers to MPS.
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.