Dr. Aaron Osafo-Acguah, and Madam Janet Eduam are Ghanaian educators. In this segment they explain, and demonstrate the learning virtues of ‘Play’ in kindergarten classrooms.
learn more*Grace Morris Allen Jones was born on this date in 1876. She was a Black educator, school administrator, clubwoman, and writer. Grace Morris Allen was born in Keokuk, Iowa, to James Addison Morris and Mary Ellen Morris, née Pyles. The family was educated and well-off financially. Grace’s grandmother was abolitionist Charlotta Gordon Pyles, and she […]
learn more*Theresa Venable was born on this date in 1948. She is a Black educator, historian, and retired librarian. From Knoxville, TN, Theresa Evans Venable earned a B.S. in Elementary Education and an M.S. in Information Sciences from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. For thirty years, she was an elementary and middle school reading and […]
learn more*Leola Havard was born on this date in 1920. She was a Black teacher and school principal. Born in Ethel, Louisiana, she wanted to be a teacher since she was a child and graduated from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She followed her father and brother and moved to San Francisco, where she would spend her […]
learn more*Bessie Mae Downey Rhoades Martin was born on this date in 1900. She was a Black teacher and sorority administrator. Bessie Mae Downey was the youngest of six children raised in Indianapolis, IN. She graduated from Manual Training High School and the City Teachers Normal School. In 1943, Martin earned her bachelor’s degree from Butler […]
learn more*Hattie Mae Annette Dulin was born on this date in 1896. She was a Black teacher and sorority administrator. Hattie Mae Annette Dulin was born in Greenville, Kentucky. Her parents were James and Mary Elizabeth Dulin. Like a growing number of African Americans in the early twentieth century, her family left the South for the […]
learn more*Nannie Mae Johnson was born on this date in 1904. She was a Black teacher and sorority administrator. Johnson was a product of the Indianapolis Public School System and received both B.S. and M.S. degrees from Butler University. In 1922, she met the teachers who became her best friends and founders of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. In […]
learn more*The birth of Cubena McClure is celebrated on this date in 1901. She was a Black teacher and sorority administrator. Cubena McClure was born in Indianapolis, IN. Graduated from Shortridge High School in 1919 and later began teaching in the IPS at Schools Nos. 24 and 26. She hosted the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority’s first initiation in […]
learn more*Mary Lou Allison Gardner Little was born on this date in 1896. She was a Black teacher and sorority administrator. Mary Lou Allison was born in Kentucky and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, with her parents. After their parents were killed in late 1899, she was separated from her brother and raised by a family friend, […]
learn moreDorothy Hayne Whiteside was born on this date in 1905. She was a Black teacher and sorority administrator. She was born in Indianapolis, IN, the daughter of Robert Hanley and Rhoda Samuels. After graduating from Shortridge High School, Whiteside entered the Indianapolis City Normal School. In 1922, when training as a cadet teacher, she met the […]
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