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Julia Evangeline Brooks (June, 1882 – November 24, 1948) was an incorporator of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, the first sorority founded by African-American women. The sorority has continued to generate social capital for nearly 100 years. Having earned a B.A. degree at Howard and M.A. at Columbia University, Brooks was a devoted educator for the rest of her life. She worked most of her life at the academic, prestigious Dunbar High School in Washington, DC. She was an assistant principal there for 26 years, and also served as dean of girls. These were unusual positions of authority for any woman of that time. Brooks inspired generations of students. ==Early life== Julia was one of ten children born to Walt Henderson Brooks and Eva Holmes Brooks in New Orleans, Louisiana.〔 Her father, a slave as a child, grabbed at the chance for education, earning B.A. and theology degrees from Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania in 1873. He became the pastor of Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Washington, DC.〔 During her youth, Julia attended public schools in Washington, D.C.. Julia was enrolled at Sumner Magruder Elementary School and M Street High School.〔 This was the academic high school for African Americans in Washington, named in 1916 for the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. It had an illustrious faculty and high standards, and attracted the best students from Washington and other cities in the South.〔(The Education of Minority Children ) Retrieved 2007-12-12〕 After graduating high school, Julia Brooks enrolled in Miner Normal School, a training school for teachers. She taught primary school for a few years, then Brooks went on to Howard University for more education.〔 It was one of the top two historically black colleges in the nation, at a time when only 1/3 of 1% of African Americans and 5% of whites of eligible age attended any college.〔James D. Anderson, ''Black Education in the South, 1860-1935''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988, p.245〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julia Evangeline Brooks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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