Women and African American History: 1880-1889
1880
• (October 20) Lydia Maria Child died (abolitionist, writer)
• (November 11) Lucretia Mott died (Quaker abolitionist and women's rights advocate)
1881
• Tennessee passed first Jim Crow laws
• Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles founded Spelman College, the first college for African American women
1882
1883
• (November 26) Sojourner Truth died (abolitionist, women's rights proponent, minister, lecturer)
• Mary Ann Shadd Cary became the second African American woman in the United States to earn a law degree
1884
• Mary Church Terrell (then Mary Church) graduated from Oberlin College (activist, clubwoman)
1885
• (June 6) A'Lelia Walker, daughter of Madam C.J. Walker, born (activist, executive, Harlem Renaissance figure)
• Sarah Goode received the first patent awarded to an African American woman
1886
1887
1888
1889
• (January 28) Prudence Crandall died (educator)
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