Hallie Quinn Brown, Wilberforce University (1873): Shortly after graduation from Wilberforce University (formerly named Ohio African University, established in 1856), Brown joined the thousands of northern missionaries going South to teach Black children and adults, moving to Mississippi and South Carolina. In 1885, she became dean of South Carolina’s Allen University, which was affiliated with the AME Church; she then taught for four years in public schools in Dayton, Ohio, before joining Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama where she served as the dean of women. [Image by Fred S. Biddle, Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.]