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    Otelia Cromwell (April 8, 1874 – April 25, 1972) was a distinguished scholar and Professor of English Language and Literature at Miner Teachers College...
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  • each year. In 2020, Otelia Cromwell Day was renamed "Cromwell Day" to simultaneously honor Otelia Cromwell's niece Adelaide Cromwell, Smith College's first...
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    Briggs, principal, 1879-1883 Marguerite Williams, American geologist Otelia Cromwell, scholar Hilda Rue Wilkinson Brown, teacher and alumni African-American...
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    for all their children, who included Otelia, Mary E., Martha, Lucy, John Wesley Jr., and Brent. Otelia Cromwell, born in 1874, became the first black...
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  • of Pennsylvania (WMCP), where they were all students in 1885. 1900: Otelia Cromwell became the first African-American woman to graduate from Smith College...
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  • and her father, John Wesley Cromwell Jr., was the city's first black certified public accountant. Her aunt, Otelia Cromwell, was the first black graduate...
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    College (1968) American Association for Cancer Research Award (1975) Otelia Cromwell Award from Smith College (1981) Recognitions Named Award: "Jane C....
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    Egypt A school for female teachers is founded in Cairo. United States Otelia Cromwell becomes the first Black woman to graduate from Smith College in Northampton...
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    attended Smith College with her sister Ethel, living off-campus as did Otelia Cromwell, the only other black student attending Smith College at this time...
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    48 (2): 149. Turner, Lorenzo D. (April 1959). "'Lucretia Mott'. by Otelia Cromwell". The Journal of Negro History. 44 (2): 186. doi:10.2307/2716042. JSTOR 2716042...
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  • , noted historian of slavery and reconstruction at Hunter College Otelia Cromwell, 1900, first African-American woman to receive a Yale degree, educator...
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    Authors for Schools and Colleges co-authored with Lorenzo Dow Turner and Otelia Cromwell (1931) and The Negro in English Romantic Thought: Or a Study in Sympathy...
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    secondary diplomas. The inspiration for the name of the academy was Otelia Cromwell, an educator who was the first black woman awarded a Ph.D. by Yale...
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  • housed Otelia Cromwell, Smith's first African-American graduate, nearly a decade earlier. Lee's mother then wrote to Otelia Cromwell for help. Cromwell, whose...
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    Staff (April 9, 1909). "Mott School Completed". The Washington Post. Cromwell, Otelia (1958). Lucretia Mott. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University...
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