Education

Education

1. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (educator; stateswoman; civil rights activist)

2. Nannie Helen Burroughs (educator; women’s rights activist; civil rights activist; orator; religious leader)

3. Mary Ann Shadd Cary (educator; women’s rights activist; writer; lawyer; abolitionist)

4. Septima Poinsette Clark (educator; civil rights activist)

5. John Hope Franklin (educator; historian)

6. E. Franklin Frazier (educator)

7. Charlotte Forten Grimké (educator; women’s rights activist; poet; abolitionist)

8. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (educator; women’s rights activist; abolitionist; poet; orator; writer)

9. Patrick Francis Healy (college president; Jesuit priest)

10. Benjamin Arthur Quarles (educator; historian; author)

11. Mary Eliza Church Terrell (educator; women’s rights activist; civil rights activist)

12. Booker Taliaferro Washington (educator; author; orator)

13. Fannie Barrier Williams (educator; political activist; women’s rights activist)

14. Carter Goodwin Woodson (educator; historian; author; journalist; intellectual)