Caroline Le count Rarely known Black History Presentation
By: Nyla Simmons
About Her..
- Born: 1846 - Philadelphia
- Died: January 24, 1923 - Philadelphia
- Education: The Institute of Colored
- Youth (now Cheyney University)
- Career: Teacher/Civil Rights Activist
- She pushed for the rights of African-American teachers and students
- standing up to the school board of the Wilmot Colored School
- insist a black colleague become principal because “colored children should be taught by their own,”
- later became only the second African American female principal of a public school.
Accomplishments
- Secretary of the Ladies’ Union Association, which sent aid to wounded black soldiers during the Civil War
- Ohio Street School teacher for 50 years
- One of the leaders in the successful fight to integrate horse-drawn streetcars