PARA PAR@` TEXT` sBrown, Hallie Quinn 18501949 educator, lecturer and clubwoman Born in Pittsburgh on March 10, 1850, Hallie Brown was the daughter of former slaves. From 1864 she grew up in Chatham, Ontario, and in 1870 she entered Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio. After her graduation in 1873 she taught in plantation and public schools in Mississippi and in South Carolina. In 18851887 she was dean of Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina, and during that period, in 1886, she graduated from the Chautauqua Lecture School. After four years of teaching public school in Dayton, Ohio, she served as lady principal of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, under Booker T. Washington in 18921893. In 1893 Brown was a principal promoter of the organization of the Colored Womans League of Washington, D.C., which the next year joined other groups to form the National Association of Colored Women. In 1893 she was appointed professor of elocution at Wilberforce University, but her teaching duties were limited by her frequent and extensive lecture tours, notably in Europe in 18941899. Her lectures on African-American life in America and on temperance were especially popular in Great Britain, where she appeared twice before Queen Victoria. She was a speaker at the 1895 convention of the Worlds Womans Christian Temperance Union in London and a representative of the United States at the International Congress of Women there in 1899. Her formal connection with Wilberforce lasted until 1903, although in 1910 she was highly effective in raising funds for the school during another British visit. She served as president of the Ohio State Federation of Colored Womens Clubs in 19051912 and of the National Association of Colored Women in 19201924; during the latter period she helped begin a campaign to preserve the Washington, D.C., home of Frederick Douglass. In the 1920s she was also active in Republican politics. She addressed the partys national convention in 1924 and subsequently directed campaign work among African-American women on behalf of President Calvin Coolidge. Among her published works were Bits and Odds: A Choice Selection of Recitations, 1880, First Lessons in Public Speaking, 1920, Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction, 1926, and Pen Pictures of Pioneers of Wilberforce, 1937. She died in Wilberforce, Ohio, on September 16, 1949, at the age of ninety-nine. &styl`!555@!I 5!IV!I!I!I!I!I!I!I !Ilink`