Hallie Quinn Brown (March 10, 1849 – September 16, 1949) was an American educator, writer and activist. Originally of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she moved with her parents (who had been enslaved) while quite young to a farm near Chatham, Canada, in 1864 and then to Ohio in 1870. In 1868, she began a course of study in Wilberforce University, Ohio, from which she graduated in... Wikipedia