(In practice, that struggle would continue for many decades, particularly for women of color.) The Times calls Slowe “a progressive force in American higher education” who helped a generation of students “transcend the intersecting disadvantages of race and sex to become intellectually distinguished, socially aware and globally conscious.” The piece also is part of the Times' series marking the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, passed in 1920, which in theory gave all women the right to vote. Now The New York Times has spotlighted Slowe, who studied at Teachers College after completing her degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in its ongoing “overlooked” series on important figures whose deaths the paper did not originally mark with obituaries. Lucy Diggs Slowe doesn’t always get the name recognition of other social justice advocates in American history, but she was a suffragist, a founding member of Alpha Kappa Alpha (the first sorority for Black university women), founder of the first junior high school in Washington, D.C., the first Dean of Women at Howard University and a lifelong advocate for the rights of Black Americans.
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