Harriette and Harry Moore were schoolteachers whose work on civil-rights cost them their jobs and, in 1951, their lives. Photo courtesy of the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex.
Born in Talbotton, Georgia in 1872, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright suffered from chronic health issues her entire life. And yet, her determination to become a teacher, and further expand the horizons of African American children, drove her to found a number of schools, including the Denmark Industrial School for Colored Youth, now Voorhees University. (image from the South Carolina Hall of Fame.)
From The General Education Board : an account of its activities, 1902-1914. (Part of Open: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
Charlotte Hawkins Brown in her doctoral robe, c. 1928.
(Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum at Historic Palmer Memorial Institute, Division of State Historic Sites and Properties, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.)
Merze Tate taught for half a century at the secondary and college levels and was also a prolific writer. In 1991 she received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Historical Association.
(Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.)
Autherine Lucy, leaving court with her attorneys: Thurgood Marshall (center) and Arthur Shores (to his left). Birmingham, Alabama, 1956.
(Library of Congress.)
Enolia Pettigen McMillan (right), with Irma Jones (left) and Leah Patterson in May 1970, during a spring renewal membership drive by the Baltimore branch of the NAACP. McMillan was the president of that branch. (Library of Congress.)
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Du Bois albums of photographs of African Americans in Georgia exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900
Images are from a report issued by the Extension Department at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1915.
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