Howard University is a private,federally chartered historically black research university in Washington,D.C.,located in the Shaw neighborhood. It is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Mary Terrell was an American civil rights activist,journalist,teacher and one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She taught in the Latin Department at the M Street School —the first African American public high school in the nation—in Washington,DC. In 1895,she was the first African-American woman in the United States to be appointed to the school board of a major city,serving in the District of Columbia until 1906. Terrell was a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909) and the Colored Women's League of Washington (1892). She helped found the National Association of Colored Women (1896) and served as its first national president,and she was a founding member of the National Association of College Women (1923).
Howard Community College is a public community college in Columbia,Maryland. It offers classes for credit in more than 100 programs,non-credit classes,and workforce development programs. In addition to the main campus in Columbia,courses are also held at two satellite campuses.
Everett Community College (EvCC) is a public community college in Everett,Washington. EvCC educates more than 19,000 students every year at locations throughout Snohomish County,Washington,with most students and faculty at the main campus in Everett.
Holy Cross College is a private,Catholic,co-educational,residential institution of higher education administered by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross in Notre Dame,Indiana. The college was founded by the Holy Cross Brothers in 1966.
The Logan family are African Americans descended from Warren Logan and his wife Adella Hunt Logan. The family has become part of the educated,professional black elite in the United States.
Gadsden County High School,known as East Gadsden High School (EGHS) until 2016,was a public high school in unincorporated Gadsden County,Florida,operated by Gadsden County School District. It is between Havana and Quincy,and it has a "Havana,Florida" postal address. Starting in fall 2017 it is the zoned high school of all of Gadsden County. It closed in 2018 and was succeeded by Gadsden County High School with a student body 70 percent African American and about 25 percent Hispanic.
Ruth Logan Roberts was a suffragist,activist,YWCA leader,and host of a salon in Harlem,New York City.
Adella Hunt Logan was an African-American writer,educator,administrator and suffragist. Born during the Civil War,she earned her teaching credentials at Atlanta University,an historically black college founded by the American Missionary Association. She became a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute and became an activist for education and suffrage for women of color. As part of her advocacy,she published articles in some of the most noted black periodicals of her time.
Willis High School is a public high school in Montgomery County,Texas. It is a part of the Willis Independent School District. In 2022,the school received a C grade from the Texas Education Agency.
Kathleen Carey Hetherington is an American academic administrator. She was president of Howard Community College (HCC) from 2007 to 2021.
Martha "Mary" A. Harris Mason McCurdy was an African-American temperance advocate and suffragist. She had a career in journalism that included editing the newspaper "Women's World".
This timeline provides an overview of the political movement for women's suffrage in California. Women's suffrage became legal with the passage of Proposition 4 in 1911 yet not all women were enfranchised as a result of this legislation.
The women's suffrage movement began in California in the 19th century and was successful with the passage of Proposition 4 on October 10,1911. Many of the women and men involved in this movement remained politically active in the national suffrage movement with organizations such as the National American Women's Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party.
Phyllis Terrell Langston was a suffragist and civil rights activist. She worked alongside her mother,Mary Church Terrell,in the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs and the White House pickets during demonstrations made by the National Woman's Party.
Adella Brown Bailey (1860–1937) was an American politician and suffragist.
Pauline J. Sims Puryear was an American social worker and clubwoman,the fourth international president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority,and Dean of Women at Florida A&M State College.
Miriam DeCosta-Willis was an American educator,writer,and civil rights activist. The first African-American faculty member at Memphis State University,having previously been denied admission to the school as a graduate student due to her race,she spent her career as a professor of Romance languages and African-American studies at a variety of colleges in Memphis,Tennessee,and the Washington,D.C.,area. She published more than a dozen books throughout her career,largely dealing with Afro-Latino literature and Black Memphis history.
Adele Logan Alexander is history professor at George Washington University and an author. She is known for her work on family history,gender,and social issues in African American families.
Amy D. Kremenek is an American academic administrator serving as the fifth president of the Tompkins Cortland Community College.
