"Hallie-Quinn-Brown"{March 10,1850-1949}

Teacher,writer and women's activist was born in Pitsburgh Pennsylvania,the of former slaves who in 1864 migrated to Ontario,Canada.The Brown family returned to the United States in 1870,settling in Wilberforce,Ohio.Hallie attended Wilberforce College and received a degree in 1873.she then taught in Freeman's schools in Mississippi before moving to COLUMBIA,South Carolina in 1875 where she served briefly as an instructor in the city's public schools.By September 1875 Hallie facility at Allen University.Hallie taught at Allen between 1875 and 1885 and then for the next two years (1885-1887) served as Dean of the University.Hallie also served as Dean of Women at Tuskegee University during the 1892-1893 school year before returning to Ohio where she taught in the Dayton public schools.

Hallie had since childhood held an interest in public speaking.In 1866 she graduated from the Chautauqua Lecture School.By the time she began working at Allen University she was already developing a reputation as a powerful orator for the causes of temperance Union women's suffrage and civil rights.In 1895 Hallie addressed an audience at the Women's Christian Temperance Union Conference in London.In 1899,while serving as one of the United States representatives,she spoke before the International Congress of Women meeting in London.She spoke before Queen Victoria.

Her involvement in the in the women's suffrage campaign led to her to help organize the Colored Women's League in Washington,D.C,one of the organizations that allied in 1896 to become the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).Hallie served as President of the Ohio State
Federation of Colored Women's Clubs between 1905 & 1912.She also served as president of the National Association of Colored Women for four years,from 1920-1924.Hallie also became active in the election campaign of Calvin Coolidge,working to deliver the vote of African American clubman to this former Massachusetts governor.

Hallie published four significant works during her lifetime.In 1880,Bits and Odds: A Choice Selection of Recitations was published.Thirty years later,in 1910,Hallie published Elocution and Physical Culture.Her First Lessons in Public Speaking made its public debut in 1920.In 1926 her book Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction appeared.This work profiled the leading African American women of the era and became her most popular work.She died in Wilberforce Ohio.