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Hallie Quinn Brown

Josephine Turpin Washington: An Early Voice for Black Womanhood

July 31, 2015 by Meeghan Kane Leave a Comment
Image citation: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Josephine Turpin Washington; Educator and writer." New York Public Library Digital Collections.

On this day in 1861, Josephine Turpin Washington was born in Goochland County, Virginia. Her parents were the children of former slaves, and her father was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson (Washington’s great-grandmother was the former president’s paternal aunt). She was born free. By July 1861, the Civil War would have engulfed Virginia—5,000 soldiers had … [Read more…]

Posted in: History Tagged: black womanhood, Civil Rights, Civil War, Hallie Quinn Brown, Howard University, Josephine Turpin Washington, Reconstruction, suffrage, Tuskegee Institute, Virginia, voting rights