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Known as "Alabama Lutheran Academy and Junior College" until 1981; It was the only historically black college among the ten colleges and universities in the Concordia University System. The college ceased operations at the completion of the Spring 2018 semester, citing years of financial distress and declining enrollment. Daniel Payne College
Michele Faith Wallace was born on January 4, 1952, in Harlem, New York.She and her younger sister Barbara grew up in a black middle-class family. Her mother is Faith Ringgold, who was a teacher and college lecturer before becoming a widely exhibited artist.
One of the first black supervisors in Atlanta's public schools Frances M. Albrier: 1977, 1978 Civil rights activist and community leader Margaret Walker: 1977 Poet and novelist Sadie Alexander: 1977 One of the first three black women in the United States ever to receive a Ph.D. Elizabeth C. Barker: 1976, 1977
Officers of the National Council of Negro Women. Founder Mary McLeod Bethune is at center. The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1935 with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality of life for African-American women, their families, and communities.
The American Negro Exposition, also known as the Black World's Fair and the Diamond Jubilee Exposition, was a world's fair held in Chicago from July until September in 1940, to celebrate the 75th anniversary (also known as a diamond jubilee) of the end of slavery in the United States at the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865. [1]
National Archives for Black Women's History (formerly the National Council of Negro Women's National Library, Archives, and Museum) is an archive located at 3300 Hubbard Rd, Landover, Maryland. It is dedicated to cataloguing, restoring and preserving the documents and photographs of African-American women.
The Colored National Labor Union (CNLU) or National Labor Union was a labor union formed by African Americans to organize their labor collectively on a national level. Established in 1869, the CNLU, like other labor unions in the United States , was created with the goal of improving the working conditions and quality of life for its members.
She headed the Women's Job Corps Program in the 1960s, and was the first African-American woman to be made full professor at the New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. [3] Noble wrote several books including The Negro Woman's College Education and Beautiful, Also, Are the Souls of My Black Sisters.