Nannie Helen Burroughs, Educator and SuffragistBlack female activists have dealt with double discrimination throughout U.S. history, making the achievements of early-20th century educator and suffragist Nannie Helen Burroughs particularly remarkable, said Sharon Harley, associate professor of African American studies. A longtime champion of Burroughs, Harley is now writing a full-length biography, Nannie Helen Burroughs: Standing Up for Justice, which will be published in 2023 by Yale University Press. <\/p>\n
Nannie Helen Burroughs was a Washingtonian, a black Baptist feminist thinker, an educator and a staunch advocate for Black working-class women. Burroughs founded, in 1909, the National Training School for Women and Girls in northeast Washington, D.C. Her Christian-based religious beliefs motivated her to build the vocational school that promoted racial advancement and womens empowerment.<\/p>\n
She helped to lay the foundation for modern Black feminist theology, joined in labor organizing and teamed with others to establish early foundations for modern-day movements to gain justice for African Americans and women. She used a savvy approach to womens education to support their financial independence. She was a courageous woman ahead of her times, determined to be a vocal advocate for the dignity of girls and womens labor within and even beyond the Christian tradition.<\/p>\n
I came to admire Burroughs for standing up for women's rights and advocating for poorer domestic service workers despiteor because ofher own humble roots. Though I knew little about her or her school that I passed on a daily basis growing up in Washington, D.C., I now know how she was an amazing woman leader who needs to be known more broadly.<\/p>\n
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