Denied a Teaching Job for Being 'Too Black,' She Started Her Own School — And a Movement

2/28/2021
Denied a Teaching Job for Being ‘Too Black,’ She Started Her Own School — And a Movement
Historians in the News
The problem was not her credentials. Nannie Helen Burroughs had graduated with honors from the prestigious M Street High School in the nation’s capital. Nor did being African American disqualify her; the administrators were hiring people of color to teach in the city’s segregated schools.
Still, Burroughs’s job application to a D.C. public school was rejected in
 the 1890s, likely because of the prejudice of colorism — a preference for lighter-skinned staff. Put simply, historians say, the Black people doing the hiring believed her to be “too Black.”

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