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Hallie Quinn Brown Hallie Quinn Brown was the first Black speech-language pathologist in the United States. Brown was born on March 10, 1850, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to former slaves. She then migrated with her family to Ontario, Canada in 1864. She and her family then moved back to the United States and settled in Wilberforce, Ohio so Hallie and her brother could attend the black college there, where she received her Bachelor’s in Science degree in 1873. Right after college, she started teaching at the Senora Plantation teaching Southern Blacks during the Reconstruction era. She continued to teach at other plantations and public schools for 12 years in Mississippi and South Carolina. Then from 1885-1887, she was an active faculty member for Allen University. She taught there between 1875 and 1885, and then she served as the university's dean for the next two years. Brown then returned to Ohio where she taught in the public schools in Dayton between 1887 to 1891. While in Ohio, Brown studied oratory and began her career in public speaking. Also, despite being dean at Allen, Brown was dean of women alongside Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Insititute during the academic school year of 1892-1893. Ever since Brown was a kid, she loved the idea of public speaking. In fact, she even graduated from the Chautauqua Lecture School of New York in 1866. Also, while teaching at Allen, Hallie was an active orator for the causes of women’s suffrage and civil rights. There were many organizations that Brown in actively in as a public speaker and activist for African Americans. She promoted organizations like the Colored Woman’s League of Washington D.C.; which then led her to form the National Association of Colored Women in

1893. Brown also was the president of the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs in the early 1910s. During the early 1900s, Brown took part in a few major projects; she maintained

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