Nannie helen burroughs biography

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Historical marker #, located in Jefferson County, commemorates the life and legacy of Nannie Helen Burroughs, suffragist, orator, educator, and club/church leader for gender and racial equality. During Nannie Helen Burroughs’ lifetime, she advocated for the eradication of lynching, to end racial discrimination, and supported equal employment and voting rights for women.

Born in Orange County, Virginia in , Burroughs relocated to Louisville in the late s when the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. (NBC) moved its headquarters there. Burroughs worked for the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention from Although Nannie Helen Burroughs only lived in Louisville for a dozen years, it was here where she began her journey towards national acclaim. While in Kentucky, she became a national religious and civil rights activist, educator, and an advocate for equal voting rights and educational and job opportunities for women.

Burroughs first attracted national attention in when she delivered a speech entitled “How the Sisters are Hindered from Helping,” at the National Baptist Convention’s annual meeting. Following her speech, Miss Burroughs’ reputation spread rapidly beyond Black Baptist circles to the larger African American community. As a result of this

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Around , Nannie Helen Burroughs was born to a formerly enslaved couple living in Orange, Virginia. Her father died when she was young, and she and her mother relocated to Washington, DC. Burroughs excelled in school and graduated with honors from M Street High School (now Paul Laurence Dunbar High School). Despite her academic achievements, Burroughs was turned down for a Washington D.C. public school teaching position. Some historians speculate that the elite Black community discriminated against Burroughs because she had darker skin. Undeterred, Burroughs decided to open her own school to educate and train poor, working African American women.  

Burroughs proposed her school initiative to the National Baptist Convention (NBC). In response, the organization purchased six acres of land in Northeast Washington, D.C. Now Burroughs needed money to construct the school. She did not, however, have unanimous support. Civil rights leader Booker T. Washington did not believe African Americans would donate money to found the school. But Burroughs did not want to rely on money from wealthy white donors. Relying on small donations from Black women and children from the community, Burroughs managed to raise enough money to open the National Training School for Women and Girls.

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