About
Intellectual and academic who is most remembered as the first black American woman to fulfill the requirements necessary to obtain a doctoral degree.
Before fame
In 1914 she graduated summa cum laude from Howard University.
Trivia
She was the third woman in history at the time to be awarded a Ph.D.
Family life
She was born in Washington, DC.
Associated with
She and actress Phylicia Rashad both graduated from the historic black college Howard University.
