| LC control no. | no 96033326 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brown, Hallie Q. (Hallie Quinn), 1845-1949 |
| Variant(s) | Brown, Hallie Q. (Hallie Quinn), d. 1949 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1845-03-10 |
| Death date | 1949-09-01 |
| Place of birth | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Wilberforce (Ohio) |
| Affiliation | Wilberforce University Allen University Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) National Association of Colored Women (U.S.) National League of Republican Colored Women |
| Profession or occupation | Elocutionists College teachers Authors Civil rights workers |
| Found in | Her Pen pictures of pioneers of Wilberforce, 1937: t.p. (Hallie Q. Brown) MnHi files (Brown, Hallie Quinn, 1859-1949) NUCMC data from Central State University Archives, Wilberforce, Ohio for Charles Wesley papers, 1852-1965 (Hallie Q. Brown) Biography Resource Center, Oct. 28, 2003 (One of the most important black leaders ever to emerge, teacher, writer, librarian, and elocutionist Hallie Quinn Brown was born March 10, circa 1845, in Pittsburgh, Penn.; died September 16, 1949, of coronary thrombosis in Wilberforce, Ohio; exact date of her birth is not known, some published reports put the year as 1845, others 1849, 1850, and as late as 1855; she was thought to be at least one hundred years old when she died) BGMI, Oct. 28, 2003 (Brown, Hallie (1845?-1949); Brown, Hallie Q. (1855?-1949); Brown, Hallie Q. (c. 1845-1949); Brown, Hallie Q. (c. 1847-1949); Brown, Hallie Quinn (1845-1949); Brown, Hallie Quinn (1849-1945); Brown, Hallie Quinn (1849?-1949); Brown, Hallie Quinn (1850-1949); Brown, Hallie Quinn (1860-1949); Brown, Hallie Quinn (c. 1845-1949)) African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Brown, Hallie Quinn; elocutionist, professor, civil rights leader, writer; born 10 March 1845 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; BS (1873), MS (1890) and a doctorate in Law (1936) from Wilberforce University; dean of Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina (1885-1887); dean of women at The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Alabama (1892-1893); professor of elocution at Wilberforce University (1893); featured speaker at the Third Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, London (1895); performed for Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle and was a guest during the Jubilee Celebration (1899); member of the exclusive Royal Geographical Society in Edinburgh; representative to the Woman's Missionary Society of the AME Conference, Edinburgh (1910); cofounded the Colored Women's League of Washington, D.C., later becoming the National Federation of Afro-American Women, renamed as the National Association of Colored Women (NACW); was a national president of NACW (1920-1924), president of Ohio State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (1905-1912), vice president of the Ohio Council of Republican Women, director of National League of Republican Colored Women; addressed the Republican National Convention in Cleveland (1924); published her best-known book, Homespun heroines and other women of distinction (1926); her legacy continues through the Hallie Q. Brown Memorial Library at Wilberforce University; died 01 September 1949 in Wilberforce, Ohio, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 86038748 |
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