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Friday, July 24, 2015
"Sarah J.Garnet" {July 31, 1831-September 17,1911}
Was an African American educator and suffragist from New York City who was a pioneer as the first African American female school principal in the New York City public school system.
The daughter of Sylvanus & Anne (Springsteel) Smith,was born in Brooklyn,New York. Sarah was the oldest of eleven children.Her sister Susan McKinney Steward was the African-American woman in New York to earn a medical degree,and the third in the United States.
Sarah married Samuel Tompkins who died approximately in 1852.Her two children from that marriage died prematurely.n
When she began teaching in New York City,the public schools were racially segregated.Sarah began teaching at the African Free School of Williamsburg in 1854.She was the first African-American woman to be appointed as a principal in the New York City public school system;she took over as principal of Grmmar School Number 4 on April 30,1863.
Sarah retired from active school service in 1900.She served as teacher and principal for more than fifty years.
Sarah was the founder of the Brooklyn Suffrage Organization,Equal Suffrage League in the 1880s.And she was the superintendent of suffrage for the National Association of Colored Women.
She owned a seamstress shop in Brooklyn from 1883-1911.
Afted noted abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet's wife died he and Sarah married.While on appointment as Ambassador in Liberia,Highland became ill,he died on February 13,1882 in Monrovia.
Sarah traveled with her sister,Susan Steward to London,England for the inaugural Universal Races Congress of 1911 where Susan presented the paper,"Colored American Women." The conference was also attended by W.E.B. Du Bois.Soon after they returned from London,she died at home.
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