Education Archives - Page 9 of 85

Eliza Harriot O’Connor

Elizabeth “Eliza” Harriot Barons O’Connor was the first woman public lecturer in the United States, as well as a promoter of female education.

Esther Georgia Irving Cooper

Esther Georgia Irving Cooper was a civil rights leader in Arlington County, Virginia.

Lila Meade Valentine

Lila Meade Valentine was an American suffragist, education reformer, and public-health advocate.

Katherine Wilson

Irish republican, civil servant, and teacher

Mary-Cooke Branch Munford

Mary-Cooke Branch Munford was an advocate of woman suffrage, interracial cooperation, education, health, and labor reforms.

Virginia Estelle Randolph

Virginia Estelle Randolph, born of formerly enslaved parents in Richmond, was a pioneering educator, community health advocate, organizational leader, and humanitarian.

Sarah Lee Fain

Sarah Lee Fain was one of the first two women elected to serve in the Virginia General Assembly following ratification in 1920 of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Frances Farmer

Frances Farmer was a law librarian and the first female law professor at the University of Virginia.

Cornelia Storrs Adair

Cornelia Storrs Adair served as president of the National Education Association (NEA), a teachers’ union, from 1927 to 1928, the first classroom teacher to be elected to that position.

Barbara Rose Johns Powell conceived and executed a 1951 student walkout at the all-Black Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, precipitating one of five legal cases that would be consolidated into the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned segregated public schools.