page_title: Ida Gibbs
section_title: Academic
hierarchical_section_title: Ida Gibbs / Career / Academic
caption_attribution_description: English: Ida Alexander Gibbs Hunt U.S. Passport Application Photo, 1918
context_page_description: Ida Alexander Gibbs Hunt was an advocate of racial and gender equality, and co-founded one of the first YWCAs in Washington, D.C. for African-Americans in 1905. She was the daughter of Judge Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, the wife of William Henry Hunt, and a longtime friend of W. E. B. Du Bois.
context_section_description: Ida taught Latin and mathematics before her marriage.She had to leave her teaching job upon marriage because until 1920, married women in the public school system in Washington, D.C. were not deemed appropriate teachers for young children. 
  She taught at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Armstrong Manual Training High School in Washington, D.C., and M Street High School, a prestigious African American college preparatory school in Washington, D.C. In the 1920's, M Street High School, later renamed Dunbar High School, had four African-American women who had PhDs, Ida Gibbs being one of them, which brought a lot of attention and traffic to the school.
  Promoting black education, civil rights and woman's suffrage, Gibbs made her mark as an educator and Pan-Africanist.
caption: Ida Alexander Gibbs Hunt, 1918
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