Educators and scholars who built schools and research institutions for Black Americans in the years after the end of slavery, when public schooling for Black children was scarce. A person belongs here when the cited article says the person created a school for Black children or founded an association to study African American life. It excludes founders of schools for other groups, who sit in their own groups. Their schools and associations created lasting institutions for Black learning.
All Pioneers of Education for Black Americans
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Dinah Whipple (Wikipedia)
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She created New Hampshire's first school for Black children.
Lucy Craft Laney (Wikipedia)
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Lucy Craft Laney (April 13, 1854, October 23, 1933) was an American educator who in 1883 founded the first school for black children in Augusta, Georgia.
Carter G. Woodson (Wikipedia)
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Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875, April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
Booker T. Washington (Wikipedia)
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In 1881, he was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, an institute for black higher education.
Katharine Drexel (Wikipedia)
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In 1891, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious congregation serving Black and Indigenous Americans.
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