Occupation-Educator-Teacher
Jane Serepta Dean (1848-1913)
Jane Serepta “Jennie” Dean, a former slave, missionary, and pioneering educator, founded the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth in...
Jeanne Martin Cissé (1926-2017)
Jeanne Martin Cissé was a Guinean teacher and nationalist politician. Cissé was born on April 6, 1926 to Darricau Martin...
Marietta Cooper Bryant (1912-2003)
Marietta Cooper Bryant was an Arizona educator and civil rights activist best known for fighting for her right to teach...
Henriette DÃaz de Lille (1813 -1862)
Catholic nun and philanthropist Henriette Díaz de Lille was born on March 11, 1813, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her great,...
Marie Louise Greenwood (1912- )
Marie Louise Anderson Greenwood was the first African American teacher to obtain tenure in the state of Colorado. Greenwood was...
Victorine Quille Adams (1912-2006)
Victorine Quille Adams was a Baltimore Public School teacher, business manager of the Charm Center, founder of the Colored Women’s...
Xernona Clayton (1930- )
Xernona Clayton, a civil rights activist and the first woman to host a television show in the South, was born...
Nedd James Johnson Sr. (1960- )
Prominent New Jersey educator Nedd James Johnson, Sr. was born on March 1, 1960 to Neely and Queen Johnson in Dayton Beach, Florida. ...
Charles Warner Cansler (1871-1953)
Charles Warner Cansler was a railway mail clerk, lawyer, educator, and noted mathematician. He spent most of his life working to better the...
