African-American History Education
based in Annapolis, Maryland

The Nannie Helen Burroughs Project addresses the views, visions and works of a remarkable woman, who seems to have been lost to history. A chapter president of the National Council of Negro Women said: “We have heard about her, but we don’t know about her”. Our goal is to increase the exposure of this American hero throughout the country and abroad. She is presented to audiences through a free-of-charge traveling display, coupled with a power point presentation.

An American Hero
Her views and vision from 1900 onward capture the important issues and problems in America, while offering solutions through her exceptional analytical and oratorical skills. After a 1934 Florida Speech, a White woman rose to her feet and exclaimed: “I do not deal in superlatives, but Miss Burroughs has given a matchless address. She is not only up-to-date in her understanding and analyses of great questions, but she is 50 years ahead of her time”. Howard University Dean Kelly Miller said: “There is no speaker on the American platform who can excel her in…homely powerful presentation of truth that strikes home and response”. Later he exclaimed: “She was a dynamo of energy.  Tracking her was no easy task.  It was like trying to capture the winds in my hands. She moved at an extraordinary pace, touching down on literally every aspect of Negro life for over six decades”.

 During a Period of 6 Decades, Burroughs:

Black Activist