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Faithful to the Task at Hand: The Life of Lucy Diggs Slowe
The African American trailblazer (1885-1937) proved her mettle in education on numerous fronts: the first dean of women at Howard University; the first president of the National Association of College Women; founding principal of the first junior high school for Black students in Washington, DC; a founder and the first president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first sorority for Black women in the country. (Curiously, the word sexism seldom appears in this work.) Slowe also might have been the victim of subtle homophobia exhibited through the insistence that she move on campus, a matter of focus only at the end of the biography when, upon her death of kidney failure at age 52, colleagues extend sympathies to her companion.
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