Nannie Burroughs # 1557

Caption from poster__   The Black Goddess of       LIBERTY                                                                                             Nannie Burroughs     To struggle and battle and  overcome and absolutely defeat  every force designed against us is the only way to achieve. US educator. She founded the National Training School for Girls; and was a frequent contributor to the press.      I was born on May 2 1879 in Orange, Virginia. When I was five my widowed mother bought me to Washington, D.C. in pursuit of a better education. At the M Street High School I excelled under the guidance of dedicated teachers like Mary Church Terrell, graduating with honors in 1896. At the time, African American women were basically limited to two employment options: domestic service or teaching. My mother, like the majority of African American women in cities, worked as a domestic servant. The work domestic servants performed maintaining homes was considered unskilled labor; and there