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The subject of this sketch was born in Lexington, Ky., more than thirty-two years ago, where she still lives and teaches in the public schools. She was also educated in the schools of this thriving little city, and now seeks to help lift up others as she herself has been lifted up.



Miss Britton has done much in the field of primary education for the race. She stands high in her own city as a refined, intelligent, faithful leader and teacher. She has done much for the general public in the line of newspaper writing and agitation. Prominent among the papers in which her writings have appeared we