Miner Normal School; Howard University; Smith College
Alma mater
Columbia University; Yale University
Occupation
Professor
Parent(s)
Lucy McGuinn and John Wesley Cromwell
Relatives
Adelaide M. Cromwell (niece)
Otelia Cromwell (April 8, 1874 – April 25, 1972) was a distinguished scholar and Professor of English Language and Literature at Miner Teachers College now known as University of the District of Columbia. She was the first African American to graduate from Smith College, receiving a B.A. in Classics in 1900. She later earned her M.A. at Columbia University in 1910 and a Ph.D. in English at Yale University in 1926, becoming the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate degree there.[1]
^Cromwell, Adelaide (2007). Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery and Segregation, 1692–1972. University of Missouri Press.
OteliaCromwell (April 8, 1874 – April 25, 1972) was a distinguished scholar and Professor of English Language and Literature at Miner Teachers College...
each year. In 2020, OteliaCromwell Day was renamed "Cromwell Day" to simultaneously honor OteliaCromwell's niece Adelaide Cromwell, Smith College's first...
attended Smith College with her sister Ethel, living off-campus as did OteliaCromwell, the only other black student attending Smith College at this time...
48 (2): 149. Turner, Lorenzo D. (April 1959). "'Lucretia Mott'. by OteliaCromwell". The Journal of Negro History. 44 (2): 186. doi:10.2307/2716042. JSTOR 2716042...
Authors for Schools and Colleges co-authored with Lorenzo Dow Turner and OteliaCromwell (1931) and The Negro in English Romantic Thought: Or a Study in Sympathy...
for all their children, who included Otelia, Mary E., Martha, Lucy, John Wesley Jr., and Brent. OteliaCromwell, born in 1874, became the first black...
, noted historian of slavery and reconstruction at Hunter College OteliaCromwell, 1900, first African-American woman to receive a Yale degree, educator...
housed OteliaCromwell, Smith's first African-American graduate, nearly a decade earlier. Lee's mother then wrote to OteliaCromwell for help. Cromwell, whose...
Staff (April 9, 1909). "Mott School Completed". The Washington Post. Cromwell, Otelia (1958). Lucretia Mott. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University...
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