| 词条 | Alberta Virginia Scott |
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Alberta Virginia Scott (c. 1875 — August 30, 1902) was an American educator. She was the first African-American graduate of Radcliffe College, in 1898. Early lifeAlberta Virginia Scott was born near Richmond, Virginia,[1] and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her family moved when she was a little girl. Her family were members of the historic Union Baptist Church in Cambridge.[2] Alberta attended Allston School (finishing in 1889)[3] and then Cambridge Latin School, graduating with the class of 1894.[4] In 1898, Alberta Virginia Scott became the first African-American graduate of Radcliffe College.[5][6] CareerAlberta Scott planned for a career in teaching.[7] She taught in Indianapolis and, briefly, at Tuskegee Institute after graduating from Radcliffe.[8] Personal lifeAlberta Scott died in 1902, in Cambridge, aged 26 years after a 16 month illness attributed to overwork and grief after the loss of her father.[9] "Her death cuts off what should have been a useful and creditable life of work among those of her race," concluded the obituary in a Cambridge newspaper.[8] There is a placard about Alberta V. Scott in Cambridge, placed by the Cambridge African American History Project in 1993.[10] The Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW) offers an Alberta V. Scott Mentorship Program, named in her honor.[11] References1. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8722790/harvards_negro_graduate_1898/ "Harvard's Negro Graduate"] The Dighton Herald (August 18, 1898): 3. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Alberta Virginia}}2. ^Church History, Union Baptist Church of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 3. ^"Our Public Schools" Cambridge Press (June 29, 1889): 2. 4. ^"The Valedictory" Cambridge Tribune (June 30, 1894): 7. 5. ^[https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/item/alberta-virginia-scott "Alberta Virginia Scott, Class of 1898"] photograph in the collection of the Schlesinger Library. 6. ^Kris Snibbe, "A Window into African-American History" Harvard Gazette (February 4, 2011). 7. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8722698/alberta_v_scott_1898/ "Colored Graduate"] Kansas City Journal (July 3, 1898): 15. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 8. ^1 "Colored Teacher Dead" Cambridge Chronicle (September 6, 1902): 6. 9. ^"Deaths" Cambridge Tribune (September 6, 1902): 8. 10. ^Cambridge Office of Tourism, Alberta V. Scott placard. 11. ^Association of Black Harvard Women, About: History. 12 : American women educators|African-American educators|Radcliffe College alumni|People from Cambridge, Massachusetts|1870s births|1902 deaths|Educators from Virginia|Educators from Massachusetts|Tuskegee University faculty|19th-century American educators|20th-century American educators|People from Richmond, Virginia |
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