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Whether I live in the North or the South, I cannot be counted for my full value, be that much or little. I dare not cease to hope and aspire and believe in human love and justice, but progress is painful and my faith is often strained to the breaking point.

Fannie Barrier Williams

Slavery in America was debasing, but the debasement of the Negro woman was deeper than that of the Negro man. Slavery made her the only woman in all America for whom virtue was not an ornament and a necessity.

Fannie Barrier Williams

Fannie Barrier Williams

Fannie Barrier Williams

Born: February 12, 1855

Died: March 4, 1944 (aged 89)

Bio: Frances "Fannie" Barrier Williams was an African-American educator and political and women's rights activist. She became well known for her efforts to have blacks officially represented on the Board of Control of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.

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