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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
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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.
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Born:
July 4, 1885
Died:
October 21, 1937
(aged 52)
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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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