Quote of the day
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
Lucy Diggs Slowe
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.