Nannie Helen Burroughs (1883-1961) -- Selena Sloan Butler (1872-1964) -- Fannie C. Williams (1882-1980) -- Frederick Douglass Patterson (1901-1988) -- The Jeanes Teacher Fund (1908-1960) -- Frances Brock Starms (1914-2012) -- John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) -- Christine King Farris (1927-present) -- Alonzo Aristotle Crim (1928-2000) -- Asa Grant Hilliard, III (1933-2007) -- Amos Wilson (1940-1995) -- Gloria Jean Merriex (1950-2008) -- Court cases preceding Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka -- Student activism : Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC) -- Birmingham Children's Crusade of 1963 -- Politics, implementation, and impact of the Atlanta compromise -- Institute for Colored Youth -- The Normal School for Colored Girls (1851) -- Sabbath schools -- Intercommunal Youth Institute -- African American boarding schools -- Day nurseries, nursery schools, and their impact on society