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Sarah Smith Garnet: Principal, Suffragist, Leader

So many talented African-American women became teachers when outlets for intellectual and managerial skill were few. Sarah Smith Garnet began…

Fannie Barrier Williams

Fannie Barrier Williams was so significant a thinker that though almost no Black women were invited to lecture at the Chicago World’s Fair, she spoke…

Mary Church Terrell

The end of legal slavery didn’t make a dent in white Americans’ racism. The opposite, really: after the Civil War Northern whites patted themselves on…

Passing the torch

The founding of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 gathered two generations of prominent African-American women in the nation's…

Founding of the NACW

In 1893, inspired by Ida B Wells' call to do something to fight lynching, Josephine St Pierre Ruffin founded the Woman's Era Club in Boston. Two…