Distinguished Department of African American Studies Faculty member, Dr. Sharon Harley, is featured in a special Black History Month article in Maryland Today.  

Here's an excerpt from the article:

Black female activists have dealt with double discrimination throughout U.S. history, making the achievements of early-20^th century educator and suffragist Nannie Helen Burroughs particularly remarkable, said Sharon Harley, associate professor of African American studies. A longtime champion of Burroughs, Harley is now writing a full-length biography, “Nannie Helen Burroughs: Standing Up for Justice,” which will be published in 2023 by Yale University Press.

“Nannie Helen Burroughs was a Washingtonian, a black Baptist feminist thinker, an educator and a staunch advocate for Black working-class women. Burroughs founded, in 1909, the National Training School for Women and Girls in northeast Washington, D.C. Her Christian-based religious beliefs motivated her to build the vocational school that promoted racial advancement and women’s empowerment."

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