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Georgiana Rose Simpson, Star Pupil:
Georgiana Rose Simpson was one of the most successful students to come out of Frances Hall's classroom. Her parents had come from Virginia and settled in Barry Farm. Georgiana attended Hall's class at the Howard (Mt. Zion) School and later on went to Hillsdale School. At one point Hall told her she had a first-class mind and motivated her to continue her studies in earnest.
After completing 8th grade she transferred to the M Street High School. From there she trained at Washington's Normal School to be a teacher and was appointed to the segregated Washington, DC, school system. By 1921 she had received a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She was the second African American woman to receive a doctorate. She was then hired by Howard University as aprofessor of German language and literature. |