Sarah Jane Early Woodson was the first African-American woman to become a college professor. She was hired by Wilberforce University in Ohio as an English and Latin professor. Woodson was born on November 15, 1825, in Chillicothe, Ohio. She was the fifth daughter and the youngest child of eleven to Jemima and Thomas Woodson. Around […]

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