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Lucy Ella Moten

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recommended her for the post of principal of Miner Normal School, which trained African-American teachers. While heading the Miner School, she decided to enroll at Howard University Medical College so she could better care for her students' health and to create a new course on hygiene. During summer
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in Salem, Massachusetts, graduating in 1875. In 1883 she graduated from Spencerian Business College. She received an M.D. from the
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Moten returned to teach in the Washington D.C. public schools for African Americans, including the
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Medical College in 1897. She studied education at New York University at the graduate level.
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from 1883 to 1920, she was responsible for training many of the teachers in
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break she often taught classes for other educators in the American South.
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Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary
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Fauquier County, Virginia
New York, New York
State Normal School (Salem, Massachusetts)
Howard University
Physician
educator
The Miner School
University of the District of Columbia
Washington, D.C.
Fauquier County, Virginia
segregated
Howard University
State Normal School
Howard University
O Street School
Frederick Douglass
New York City





"Women's History Month – Dr. Lucy E. Moten"
"Moten, Lucy Ellen (1851–1933)"
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1850s births
1933 deaths
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American educators

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