Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2020
Abstract
As a society, we are still having discussions about whether or not women “can have it all.” We have not moved past gendered expectations for men and women. Mollie Carey Brown, Fanny Ellis Starnes, and Lady Henrietta Boyd were Black educators in the San Antonio public school system in the late nineteenth century who have incredible stories that may feel familiar to some women today. Mollie Carey Brown and Fanny Ellis Starnes both got married and ended their careers. Henrietta Boyd never got married, and remained a teacher until retirement. All three of these women had to fight gender expectations much like women today.
Recommended Citation
LeJeune, Jordan, "The Impact of Marriage on African American Educators in Bexar County, 1880-1950" (2020). Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020. 9.
https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist4301_spring2020/9
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