This guide is a cooperative endeavor inspired by the continued scholarship of Tondra Loder-Jackson and Penny Seals on the activism of African American Educators and by the mission of UAB Libraries and Librarians Dana Hettich and Brooke Becker to help bring the scholarship to life.
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
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