Motion Picture Films on Community and Family Life, Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Art and Culture of Minority and Ethnic Groups, ca. 1930–ca. 1953
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Slowe, Lucy Diggs, 1885-1937
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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 Univer...