Educator Mary Jane Patterson is considered to be the first African American woman to receive a B.A. degree when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1862. A fellow Oberlin alumnus,… … Read MoreMary Jane Patterson (1840-1894)
…Mary Herrick Fund Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004 the city of Chicago designated the block of 24th Street between Michigan and Wabash Avenues, the location of the Chicago Defender Building,… … Read MoreCharles A. Davis (1922–2016)
…race and class. For example, the CRC supported the creation of the National Committee to Free the Ingram Family which was headed by Mary Church Terrell, long a leader of… … Read MoreRosa Lee Ingram (b? -1980)
…to admit African American male students and two years later it opened its doors to all women, becoming the first coeducational college in the country. In 1862, Mary Jane Patterson… … Read MoreOberlin College (1833- )
…whom were former students at the school. Among the first several principals of the school were Mary Jane Patterson, the second African American female college graduate, Anna J. Cooper, the… … Read MorePaul Laurence Dunbar High School (1870- )
…degree. In 1862 Oberlin College formally awarded the first bachelor’s degree to an African American woman when Mary Jane Patterson graduated with a B.A. Lucy Stanton was born as a… … Read MoreLucy Stanton Day Sessions (1831-1910)
Mary Jane Holmes Shipley Drake, born in Missouri in 1841, was one of six children of Robin and Polly Holmes. From 1852 to 1853 Mary Jane was the subject of… … Read MoreMary Jane Holmes Shipley Drake (1841–1925)
Mary Jane Grant Seacole was an early nurse in the British Empire during the 19th Century. Born in Kingston, Jamaica as Mary Grant, she was the daughter of a Scottish… … Read MoreMary Jane Seacole (1805-1881)
Mary McLeod Bethune was a prominent educator, political leader, and social visionary whose early twentieth century activism for black women and civil rights laid the foundation for the modern civil… … Read MoreMary Jane McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
of Mary Bowser … just not the Mary Bowser we’ve been claiming her to be. Having my suspicions about the photograph’s authenticity confirmed left me more frustrated than vindicated. It… … Read MoreIs This Mary Bowser?: The Use and Misuse of Photographs to Reconstruct History