W. Gertrude Brown

W. Gertrude Brown  1888–1949 W. Gertrude Brown was an American educator and social worker. She is best known as the first head resident of the Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mary Washington

Mary Washington 1906–2005 Mary Washington was a Black Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who was a leader in future generations of Black CPAs. After high school, where Washington excelled in math, she worked at one of the few African American owned banks in th 1920s. Her supervisor and the bank’s vice president encouraged her to get… Continue reading Mary Washington

Dr. Reatha Clark King

Reatha Clark King 1938- As a child in Georgia, Reatha Clark King picked cotton for $6 a day to help her family make ends meet. Long days in the hot sun was her motivation for something better. Says King, “There is nothing that motivates you like hard work in the cotton field. I recall being… Continue reading Dr. Reatha Clark King