During Women’s History Month 2024, O’Writes celebrates Women of Uplift -- women with a shared connection to Tuskegee University, a prominent HBCU in Alabama, whose founder, Booker T. Washington, established the college as an institution whose mission was to uplift the African American race.
Meet Martha Norman Adams (1878-1956)
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O'Writes celebrates the legacy Martha Norman Adams (1878-1956), co-founder of Grambling State University. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Martha was the daughter and one of 16 children born to Lewis Adams -- the tinsmith, shoemaker, and activist responsible for bringing Booker T. Washington to then Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers, as its first principal/president. An alumna of the Normal School, Martha married Charles Phillip Adams, a native of Brusly, Louisiana, and fellow Tuskegee alumnus, in 1904. Charles Adams was a committed educator and administrator at Tuskegee Normal School before Booker T. Washington recommended him to start an agricultural and industrial school in North Louisiana. This college would become Grambling State University. Martha Norman Adams served as Grambling State University’s co-founder and domestic science teacher.
Salute!
Credits:
“Martha Norman Adams.” Macon Progress. https://www.maconprogress.net.
