Advancing the Cause of Education: 7 Black Women Who Kicked in the Schoolhouse Door
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Terri Williams
Dr. Melissa Harris Perry
Although she is best known as the host of The Melissa Harris Perry Show on CNN, Dr. Perry is also a heavyweight in the education arena. In 2009, she became the youngest scholar to give the W.E.B. Du Bois lectures at Harvard University, and that same year she also became the youngest woman to deliver the Ware Lecture. Dr. Perry received her PhD from Duke University. She has taught at both Princeton University and Chicago University, and is currently a professor of political science at Tulane University. Dr. Perry is also the founder of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race and Politics in the South.
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