Title

Miss Hallie Q. Brown, M. S., Elocutionist, 1888. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Miss Hallie Q. Brown, M. S., Elocutionist, 1888. African-American educator, a professor of elocution, writer and activist Hallie Quinn Brown received a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University, and was one of the first black female university graduates in the United States. She was Dean of the African Methodist Episcopal Church affiliated Allen University in South Carolina, principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and taught on plantations in the South. From 'The Centennial Jubilee of Freedom at Columbus, Ohio'.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A11_312

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20,9Mb (1,1Mb) / 6,5in x 12,5in / 1954 x 3735 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people black library job religious education teacher country religion occupation church Christianity location century teaching profession first concept speech African American African-American full length afro-american full-length educator public library writer ame United States of America author 19th century Episcopal Church activism activist New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL heritage American America USA African Methodist Episcopal Church portrait united states Unknown Brown elocution cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art portraits African Methodist Episcopal 19th-century Prints Schomburg Center for Research Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Benjamin William Arnett Arnett Benjamin William Benjamin W. Arnett B. W. Arnett Aldine Printing House elocutionist Hallie Quinn Brown Hallie Quinn