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ISBN: 1438442602 9781438442600 9781438442587 1438442580 9781438442594 1438442599 Year: 2012 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press
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Born just twenty years after the end of slavery and orphaned at the age of five, Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885–1937) became a seventeen-time tennis champion and the first African American woman to win a major sports title, a founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and the first Dean of Women at Howard University. She provided leadership and service in a wide range of organizations concerned with improving the conditions of women, African Americans, and other disadvantaged groups and also participated in peace activism. Among her many accomplishments, she created the first junior high school for black students in Washington, DC.In this long overdue biography, Carroll L. L. Miller and Anne S. Pruitt-Logan tell the remarkable story of Slowe's steadfast determination working her way through college, earning respect as a teacher and dean, and standing up to Howard's President and Board of Trustees in insisting on equal treatment of women. Along the way, the authors weave together recurring themes in African American history: the impact of racism, the importance of education, the role of sports, and gender inequality.
Educators --- African American women educators --- Women deans (Education) --- Deans (Education) --- Women educators --- Afro-American women educators --- Women educators, African American --- Slowe, Lucy Diggs, --- Howard University --- Howard University, Washington, D.C. --- United States. --- History --- Slowe, Lucy Diggs
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ISBN: 143845578X 9781438455785 9781438455778 1438455771 Year: 2015 Publisher: Albany, New York : SUNY Press,
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Who was Ann Plato? Apart from circumstantial evidence, there's little information about the author of Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry, published in 1841. Plato lived in a milieu of colored Hartford, Connecticut, in the early nineteenth century. Although long believed to have been African American herself, she may also, Ron Welburn argues, have been American Indian, like the father in her poem "The Natives of America." Combining literary criticism, ethnohistory, and social history, Welburn uses Plato as an example of how Indians in the Long Island Sound region adapted and prevailed despite the contemporary rhetoric of Indian disappearance. This study seeks to raise Plato's profile as an author as well as to highlight the dynamics of Indian resistance and isolation that have contributed to her enigmatic status as a literary figure.
African American women educators. --- African American women authors. --- Afro-American women educators --- Women educators, African American --- Women educators --- Afro-American women authors --- Women authors, African American --- Women authors, American --- Plato, Ann --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Hartford (Conn.) --- Hartford --- City of Hartford (Conn.) --- Newtown (Hartford County, Conn.) --- Suckiag (Conn.) --- Intellectual life.
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