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National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls

Why was Nannie rejected from her first teaching job?

What did Nannie publish articles about?

Who asked Nannie to work as a chair member and organize a committee to help house African American families.

Gate of the Progressive National Baptist Convention

What was the pageant called that Nannie organized?

What did Burrough's school encourage?

Who did Nannie Helen Burroughs mentor?

Nannie's goal at her school was to...

Inspired by this school/believed women should have the right to become domestic workers to cook, clean, nanny, and perform other tasks.

Nannie's Moto

What was the purpose of Nannie's pageant?

A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer

Feminism

“When Truth Gets A Hearing”

Because of her skin color.

three b’s: “the bible, the bathtub, and the broom.”

Martin Luther King

President Herbert Hoover

For American Americans to celebrate their culture and combat racism by reading poetry and listening to music.

Teach African American women to learn how to rely on themselves to make money and tend a home. Also how to barber, garden, print, and repair shoes.

African Americans to think about justice, power, and race, to find a solution to these problems.