Lyons, Maritcha Rémond, 1848-1929

Occupation
Teachers
African American women civil rights workers
Women authors, Black

found: Bolden, T., Maritcha, 2004:CIP introd. etc. (Maritcha Rémond Lyons; b. May 23, 1848, New York City; d. Jan. 28, 1929)

found: Notable Black American women: Book 2, 1996:p. 417 (Maritcha R. Lyons (May 23, 1848, New York (N.Y.) - Jan. 28, 1929, New York (N.Y.)), educator, writer, lecturer; she made a career in the Brooklyn schools, where she taught for 48 years; the first black person to graduate from Providence High School; one of the first African-American women Civil Rights Activists who won a significant civil rights victory in 1865 when she argued before the RI legislature that African American students should be admitted to any public school in the state)