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Negro women, no less than white women, must be prepared for the responsibilities of citizenship if they are to discharge their duties to the government under which they live and if they are to be capable of watching intelligently their own interests, and of using their ballot in preserving and promoting these interests.

Lucy Diggs Slowe

Lucy Diggs Slowe

Lucy Diggs Slowe

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Born: July 4, 1885

Died: October 21, 1937 (aged 52)

Bio: Lucy Diggs Slowe was the first black women to serve as Dean of Women at any American University and the first Dean of Women at Howard University.

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