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Moments from Extraordinary Lives: Early Black Women Graduates at Brown University

Description

Abstract:
Pembroke Center archivists developed this catalog in conjunction with the 2026 exhibt "Moments from an Extraordinary Life: Nellie B. Nicholson's Scrapbook." This catalog shares biographical information about Black women who graduated from Brown University between 1905 and 1945 and also includes a timeline of notable moments in Black women's history in Rhode Island and at Brown between 1866 and 1968.
Notes:
Moments from Extraordinary Lives: Early Black Women Graduates at Brown University, Brown University Library
Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Citation

Knox, Amanda M., Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Perfect, Erin, et al., "Moments from Extraordinary Lives: Early Black Women Graduates at Brown University" (2026). The University and Beyond, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:423485/

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