Hallie Quinn Brown

Hallie Quinn Brown (March 10, 1849 – September 16, 1949) was an African American educator, writer and activist. Brown was born March 10, 1850 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of six children. Her parents Frances Jane Scroggins and Thomas Arthur Brown were freed slaves. She attended Wilberforce University in Ohio, gaining a Bachelor of Science degree. Brown graduated from Wilberforce in 1873 and then taught in schools in Mississippi and South Carolina. She was dean of Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina from 1885 to 1887 and principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1892 to 1893 under Frederick Douglass. She became a professor at Wilberforce in 1893, and was a frequent lecturer on African American issues and the temperance...