#WomensHistoryMonth2023 #ColoredTrainingSchool (now #CoppinStateCollege)- then located at #DolphinStreet and #PennsylvaniaAvenue #HBCUCollectedTreasures #ArtifactualJourney #OldWestBaltimore #BmoreHistory
#BessieAnnaAnderson had a 47 year career as an educator in the #BaltimoreCityColoredSchoolSystem, including as an English and Geography teacher at historic #DunbarHighSchool in #EastBaltimore.
She graduated from the #ColoredHighSchool (now #FrederickDouglassHighSchool), the #ColoredTrainingSchool, #MorganStateCollege (now #MorganStateUniversity), and the #UniversityofPennsylvania. Anderson was a longtime member of #MacedoniaBaptistChurch (Fremont & Lafayette Avenues) and the #NAACP.
She and her family lived at a three story row house on North Carey Street.
She came out of a segregated school system of well credentialed and prestigious educators, such as #JosephHarrisonLockerman, #FannieLBarbour, and #MasonAHawkins. She then returned to teach in the same school system that had nurtured her.
This is part of an extensive Coppin State University archive
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