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19th-century African-American educators

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George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)
Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)
Martin R. Delany
United States Army officer and physician, abolitionist, journalist, and writer (1812–1885)
Caroline Still Anderson
American physician, educator, and activist (1848–1919)
Clarissa Allen
American author and educator (1859-1941)
Nannie Helen Burroughs
American activist (1879–1961)
Octavia Rogers Albert
African-American author of Life history
Sarah Mapps Douglass
American activist and artist (1806-1882)
Mary E. Britton
African-American physician
Patrick Francis Healy
American Jesuit educator (1834-1910)
Octavius Catto
American activist (1839–1871)
Fanny Jackson Coppin
American educator (1837–1913)
Sarah Jane Woodson Early
American writer (1825-1907)
Daniel Payne
Methodist bishop and educator
Lily Ann Granderson
American slave
Mary Elizabeth Lange
Founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence.
Mary Jane Patterson
American educator (1840-1894)
Francis Lewis Cardozo
clergyman, politician, educator (1836–1903)
Sadie L. Adams
African-American suffragette and club woman (1872-1945)
Alethia Tanner
American educator
Julie Hayden
American teacher
Justin Holland
American musician, guitar pedagogue (1819-1887)
Artishia Gilbert
American physician
Adella Hunt Logan
American suffragist
William Sanders Scarborough
African-American classical scholar (1852–1926)
John Warren Davis
African American educator, college administrator and civil rights leader (1888-1980)