Mary Jane Patterson

About Mary Jane Patterson

[Wikidata] American educator (1840-1894)... | [Wikipedia] Mary Jane Patterson was an American educator born to a previously enslaved mother and a freeborn father. She is notable because she is claimed to be the first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree. In 1862, she completed the four-year 'gentlemen's course' at Oberlin College. She first taugh