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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 ...
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.
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.
Mary Powell Burrill (August 1881 – March 13, 1946) was an early 20th-century African-American female playwright of the Harlem Renaissance, who inspired Willis Richardson and other students to write plays. Burrill herself wrote plays about the Black Experience, their literary and cultural activities, and the Black Elite.
Maria Stewart was born Maria Miller in 1803 in Hartford, Connecticut, to free African-American parents. In 1806, by the age of three, she lost both parents and was sent to live with a white minister and his family where she worked as an indentured servant until around the age of 15, where she received no formal education.
This list of famous African American women to know in 2024 includes singers, actors, athletes, entrepreneurs, politicians and more inspiring modern Black women.
Maria Louise Baldwin (September 13, 1856 – January 9, 1922) [1] was an American educator and civic leader born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [2] She lived all her life in Cambridge and Boston. [3]
Rediet Abebe (1991–), Ethiopian computer scientist and was appointed at the Harvard Society of Fellows as the first female computer scientist. Berhane Asfaw (1954–), Ethiopian paleontologist. Giday WoldeGabriel (1955–), Ethiopian geologist. Gebisa Ejeta (1950–), Ethiopian plant breeder and geneticist who won the 2009 World Food Prize.