Slowe, Lucy Diggs, 1885-1937
Lucy Diggs Slowe was born July 4, 1883 in Berryville, Virginia. In 1904 she graduated from Baltimore Colored High School in Baltimore, Maryland. She entered Howard University and was the first girl from Baltimore Colored High School to enter and first to receive a scholarship. Slowe was a tennis champion, winning the national title of the American Tennis Association's first tournament in 1917, the first African-American woman to win a major sports title.
After graduating from Howard University she taught English; she received her M.A. degree from Columbia University. In 1919, Slowe organized and became first principal of Shaw Junior High School, first Junior High School for African Americans in Washington, D.C.
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