Black Female Educators

Who studied to enter Rhode Island State Normal School?

• Bessie Burke

• Inez Beverly Prosser

• Fanny Jackson Coppin

• Gloria Ladson-Billings

Who retired in 1955 after 44 years with the Los Angeles Board of Education?

 

• Mrs. Koski

• Fanny Jackson Coppin

• Bessie Burke

• Charlotte Hawkins Brown

Who was one of the first Black alumnae of Oberlin College?

• Bessie Burke

• Lucy Craft Laney

• Fannie C. Williams

• Fanny Jackson Coppin

Who became the first Black school superintendent in the United States?

• Septima Poinsette Clark

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Fanny Jackson Coppin

• Bessie Burke

Who was the first Black teacher and principal hired in the Los Angeles public school system?

• Marian Wright Edelman

• Bessie Burke

• Marva Collins

• Fanny Jackson Coppin

Who became a principal at Nevin Avenue School and became the first black principal to head a racially integrated school?

• Vanessa Siddle Walker

• Fanny Jackson Coppin

• Gloria Ladson Billings

• Bessie Burke

Who taught Latin, Greek, and mathematics at the Institute for Colored Youth?

• Fanny Jackson Coppin

• Bessie Burke

• Bell Hooks

• Donna Y. Ford

Who served with a number of civic organizations (ex: YWCA and Native California Club)?

• Kaya Henderson

• Bessie Burke

• Fanny Jackson Coppin

• Cheryl Fields-Smith

Who developed a practice-teaching system and an elaborate industrial-training department?

• Joy S. Jones

• Fanny Jackson Coppin

• Gholnecsar Muhammad

• Bessie Burke

Who earned her teaching credential in 1911 and had her first teaching assignment at Holmes Elementary School?

• Fanny Jackson Coppin

• Maxine Smith

• Bessie Burke

• Hallie Quinn Brown