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Preferred Citation

Anna Jean Snowden notebook, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased with Nelle Richardson Tonkin Fund

Biographical / Historical

Anna Jean Snowden was born in Lexington, Kentucky. She attended Chandler Normal School, graduating around 1912, then earned a Bachelor of Science degree and teacher's diploma in education from Howard University in 1916. Snowden taught at Tuskgee Institute from 1917 to 1918, before moving to Richmond, Virginia to live with her sister Lillian. In the 1920s she taught at Georgia State College in Savannah and in later life taught at Wiberforce University. She died in July 1996.

Scope and Contents

This collection includes a composition notebook with 34 leaves of lined paper (22 pages with handwritten text), a laid-in stapled gathering of 8 leaves (6 pages with text), and a Howard University Hour Examination sheet. It was compiled by an African-American woman, Anna Jean Snowden, who attended Howard University and later taught at the Tuskegee Institute. The notebook contains her coursework at Howard and educational interests as well as her attendance at the Annual Negro Farmers' Conference at Tuskegee in 1917.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• African American women--Education
• African Americans--Education
• African Americans--History
• Diaries
• Education, Higher
• Journals (accounts)
• Lecture notes
• Minority college students
• Tuskegee (Ala.)
• Universities and colleges, Black
• Women educators