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18 She is a prominent member of the A. M. E. Church; also a member of the "King's Daughters." "Human Rights League," and the "Isabella Association."

She has served as lady-principal at Allen University and traveled extensively soliciting aid for the same. While on this tour the Chicago Bee said of her:

She was elected as instructor in elocution and literature at Wilberforce University, but declined in order to accept a position at Tuskegee.

In 1886 she graduated from Chautauqua, N. Y., and in 1887 received the degree of M. S. from her Alma Mater being the first female thus honored.

Wherever she has gone there her impress has been left as a pleasant reminder. The honors that have been heaped upon her, a knowledge of her own influence and ability, her excellence as a speaker before the public and as an elocutionist at large, the encomiums of the public press and the voice of the people, have not turned her head.

Meek as a lamb, gentle, kind, sociable and pure, yet eloquent, proficient, popular and progressive, Miss Brown is not only a public speaker and an