Occupation – Educator – College Instructor
Nathan Hare (1933-2024)
Nathan Hare, the founder of The Black Scholar: A Journal of Black Studies and Research and called by many scholars...
Shirley Nash Weber (1948- )
Currently California Secretary of State, Shirley Nash Weber was born September 20, 1948, in Hope, Arkansas, one of the eight...
Louise Thompson Patterson (1901-1999)
Louise Alone Thompson Patterson, civil rights activist, communist, and educator, was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 9, 1901 to...
Margaret Cornelia Morgan Lawrence (1914-2019)
Margaret Lawrence, the first African American psychoanalyst and the first pediatric psychiatrist in the United States, is the author of...
Bernice Mathews (1933- )
Bernice Mathews is a small business owner and the director of the nursing program at Truckee Meadows Community College in...
Hamilton Hatter (1856-1942)
Hamilton Hatter, educator and inventor, was the first principal of Bluefield Colored Institute in Bluefield, West Virginia. Hatter was born...
Fannie Jackson Coppin (1837-1913)
Fannie Jackson was born a slave in Washington DC on October 15, 1837. She gained her freedom when her aunt...
Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (1898-1980)
Physician, educator, and social activist Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee led efforts to improve the health care of African Americans. As...
Roger Arliner Young (1889-1964)
Roger Arliner Young, born in Clifton Forge, Virginia in 1889, was the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in...
