*Charlene Drew Jarvis was born on this date in 1941. She is a Black educator, a scientific researcher, and a politician. From Washington, D.C., Charlene Rosella Drew) is the daughter of Charles Drew and the sister of Sylvia Drew Ivie. Jarvis earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College in 1962, a Master of […]
learn more*Delores P. Aldridge was born on this date in 1941. She is an American sociologist. Aldridge was born in Tampa, Florida, to Willie Lee Aldridge and Mary Ellen Bennett Aldridge. She was privately schooled at Allen Temple A.M.E Church and then attended Meacham Elementary School, Booker T. Washington Junior High School, and Middleton High School. […]
learn more*Lezli Baskerville was born on this date in 1956. She is a Black lawyer, judge, and education advocate. Baskerville was born in Montclair, New Jersey, to Marjorie Baskerville and Charles W. Baskerville. Her mother was a teacher and social worker, and her father was a marketing executive. She has an identical twin, Dr. Renee E. […]
learn more*Julius Thompson was born on this date in 1946. He was a Black educator, poet, administrator, and activist. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Julius E. Thompson attended elementary and high school in Natchez, Mississippi, and received his BA in history from Alcorn State University (1969). He subsequently earned his MA (1971) and PhD (1973) in American […]
learn moreMadam Janet Eduam is an early childhood kindergarten teacher in Ghana, Africa. In this segment, she shares some reasons why she teaches using traditional methods.
learn more*La Francis Rodgers-Rose was born on July 19, 1936. She is a Black sociologist and Educator. La Francis Rodgers-Rose was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and grew up in segregated Portsmouth, Virginia, with her mother, two older brothers, and younger sister. She graduated from Morgan State University with honors in sociology and anthropology in 1958, where […]
learn more*Roscoe Bruce was born on this date in 1879. He was a Black educator known for stressing the value of practical industrial and business skills instead of academic disciplines. Roscoe Conkling Bruce was born in Washington, D.C., the only son of U.S. Senator Blanche Bruce and his wife Josephine Beall Willson Bruce. His father was […]
learn more*Marion Thompson Wright was born on September 12, 1902. She was a Black scholar, educator, and activist. Marion Manola Thompson was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to Minnie Thompson and Moses R. Thompson. Wright was the youngest of four children and had two older twin sisters and a brother. She attended Barringer High School […]
learn more*Friendship Armstrong Academy was dedicated on this date in 1902. This public charter school is in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. With the passage of an act of the 55th Congress, approved March 3, 1899, the school first bore the name Manual Training School No. 2, later changed to Armstrong Manual Training School. […]
learn more*Mary Hayes Allen was born on this date in 1875. She was a Black educator, administrator, and activist. Mary Magdalene Rice was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She was the illegitimate daughter of former slave Malinda Rice and a white former Confederate general, John R. Jones. She attended Hartshorn Memorial College. In 1895, she married educator […]
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