Women of achievement
Subtitle: written for the Fireside Schools under the auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society
By: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939
Contributors: Fireside Schools; Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African American women; Biography; African Americans; Women; History
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Benjamin G. Brawley begins his volume by praising the progress of African-American women in joining the industrial workforce, in furthering the expansion of organizations for the black community, in playing a primary role in children's education, and in medicine, law, literature, and music. The rest of his volume celebrates five particular women who won distinction as missionaries, artists, educators, and lecturers, as well as Harriet Tubman, who played an active role in leading slaves to freedom in the North.
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Transcribed from: Women of achievement : written for the Fireside Schools under the auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society / by Benjamin Brawley. [Chicago, Ill.] : Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, c1919. 92 p. : ill. ports. ; 18 cm.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Negro woman in American life; title: Harriet Tubman; title: Nora Gordon; title: Meta Warrick Fuller; title: Mary McLeod Bethune; title: Mary Church Terrell.