Notwithstanding the racial disparity, Sarah Jane Early Woodson nursed her ambition to become an educationist and eventually became the first African American female college professor. She broke the barriers for women academics in an era when nothing was really expected from women, much less a black woman. She attended Oberlin College and graduated in 1856 as one of the first Black women to graduate college. She was one of five Black women who were invited to speak at the World’s Congress of Representative Women in Chicago in 1893. In 1907, Sarah Jane Early Woodson passed away.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 20, 2020 18:00 UTC