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Mary Jane Patterson (* 12. September 1840 in Raleigh , North Carolina ; † 24. September 1894 in Washington, D.C. ) war eine US-amerikanische Lehrerin und 1862 die erste Afroamerikanerin , die einen Studienabschluss ( Bachelor of Arts am Oberlin College ) erwerben konnte.
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Mary Michael Patterson is an American theater actress and singer. She was raised in Aledo, Texas , a suburb west of Fort Worth. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Musical Theater.
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Mary Jane Patterson was the oldest of Henry Irving Patterson and Emeline Eliza (Taylor) Patterson's children. There is conflicting data on how many siblings she had, but most sources cite between seven and ten. Henry Patterson worked as a bricklayer and plasterer who gained his freedom from slavery in 1852, whether by escape or other means, twelve ...
After graduation, Patterson was listed as teaching in Chillicothe, Ohio. On September 21, 1864, she applied for a position in Norfolk, Virginiaat a school for black children. On October 7, 1864, E. H. Fairchild, principal of Oberlin College's preparatory department from 1853 to 1869, wrote recommending her for an "appointment from the American miss...
Patterson was a humanitarian and active in many organizations. She devoted time and money to Black institutions in Washington, D. C. Her obituary in the Evening Star said she "co-operated heartily in sustaining the Home for the Aged and Infirm Colored People in this city and other Kindred organizations." Patterson also worked in 1892 with Mary Chur...
Patterson died at her Washington, D. C. home, September 24, 1894, at the age of 54. She is recognized as a pioneer in black education, paving the way for other black female educators and leaders. Her life was spent giving young African Americans the same educational chances that she had been granted at Oberlin College.Her old home is on the route o...
“She was a woman with a strong, forceful personality, and showed tremendous power for good in establishing high intellectual standards in the public schools. Thoroughness was one of Miss Patterson’s most striking characteristics as a teacher. She was a quick, alert, vivacious and indefatigable worker.” (Mary Church Terrell, Oberlin alumna, Journal ...
Jessie Carney Smith, ed., Notable Black American Women, Book 1(Detroit: Gale Research, 1992) Dorothy Sterling, We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century(New York: W. W. Norton, 1984) Mary Gibson Hundley, The Dunbar Story (1870-1955)(New York: Vantage Press, 1965) Weatherford, Doris. American Women's History.(New York: Prentice Hall...
Mary Patterson may refer to: Mary Patterson (politician) (1927–2016) , American singer and politician. Mary Patterson Clark (born 1936), Canadian architect. Mary Jane Patterson (1840– 1894), first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree.
Beth Ditto (* 19. Februar 1981 in Searcy, Arkansas als Mary Beth Patterson) ist eine amerikanische Sängerin, Songwriterin und seit der Gründung 1999 Sängerin und Frontfrau der Band Gossip .
3. Dez. 2010 · Educator Mary Jane Patterson is considered to be the first African American woman to receive a B.A. when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1862. A fellow Oberlin alumnus, Lucy Stanton Day Sessions, graduated twelve years earlier but was not in a program that awarded official bachelor’s degrees.
