Nannie Helen Burroughs
Burroughs was not only a suffrage supporter but a well-known African American educator and church leader who was all for women empowerment. She helped establish the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 and founded the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, D.C., in 1909. The many articles she wrote for leading African American newspapers and magazines and the hundreds of speeches she gave throughout the country were all centered on injustices as well as “women’s self-reliance and economic freedom.”
