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(CIVIL RIGHTS—WOMEN.)
BURROUGHS, NANNIE H.
Signed
photographic card and three 8 x 10
photographs picturing the noted
activist.
Vp, vd, 1940’s-1950
[400/600]
Nannie Helen Burroughs (1878 – 1961)
educator, orator, religious leader, civil rights
activist, feminist and businesswoman, gained
national recognition for her 1900 speech “How
the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping,” at the
National Baptist Convention. On October 19,
1901, she founded the National Training
School for Women and Girls in Washington,
D.C. It has since been renamed the Nannie
Helen Burroughs School in her honor and pro-
vides education for the elementary grades.
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