Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) was an American educator, orator, religious leader, civil rights activist and businesswoman. Born in Orange, Virginia, to parents who had been enslaved, she grew up in Washington, DC, and was refused a teaching post in the city's public schools after graduating from M Street High School in 1896. Her 1900 speech to the National Baptist Convention made her famous, and she helped build its Women's Convention. She founded the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington in 1909, which taught Black women trades, domestic science and Black history under the motto of the Bible, the bath and the broom. It was renamed the Nannie Helen Burroughs School in 1964.
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was an educator, orator, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist, and businesswoman in the United States
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was an educator, orator, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist, and businesswoman in the United States
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May 2, 1879
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There she met her role models Anna J. Cooper and Mary Church Terrell, who were active in the suffrage movement and civil rights.
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In 1909, she founded the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, DC.
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