Hallie Quinn Brown
Hallie Quinn Brown was born on March 15, 1845. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Hallie Quinn Brown
Hallie Quinn Brown (March 15, 1845/1850 - September 16, 1949) was an African-American educator and activist. She moved with her parents (who were formerly enslaved) while relatively young to a farm near Chatham, Ontario, Canada, in 1864 and then to Ohio in 1870. In 1868, she began a course of study in Wilberforce University, Ohio, from which she graduated in 1873 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. She started her career by teaching at a country school in South Carolina and, simultaneously, a class of older people. After this, she went to Mississippi, where she again had charge of a…