Hallie Quinn Brown, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hallie Quinn Brown

American writer and activist

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1849

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 16-Sep-1949

Profession: writer, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Hallie Quinn Brown (March 10, 1849 – September 16, 1949) was an African-American educator, writer and activist.Originally of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while quite young, her parents moved to a farm near Chatham, Canada.
Brown was born the daughter of two former slaves.
Her father was an incredibly bright man, known as "Mr.
Brown, the walking encyclopedia." Her mother was also well educated, a counselor to the students of Wilberforce school.
Brown's family to 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 at the same time, a class of older people.
After this, she went to Mississippi, where she again had charge of a school.
She became employed as a teacher at Yazoo City, Mississippi, before securing a position as teacher in Dayton, Ohio.
Resigning due to ill health, she then traveled in the interest of Wiberforce University on a lecture tour, and was particularly welcomed at Hampton Normal School (now Hampton University) in Virginia.
Though elected as instructor in elocution and literature at Wilberforce University, she declined the offer in order to accept a position at Tuskegee Institute.
In 1886, she graduated from Chautauqua, and in 1887 received the degree of Master of Science from her alma mater, Wilberforce, being the first woman to do so.