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Working for Higher Education: Advancing Black Women’s Rights in the 1850s

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The following are institutes that welcomed African Americans who sought economic mobility through education.

Oneida Institute of New York

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Woodstock Manual Labor Institute

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Albany Manual Labor Academy

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Albany Enterprise Academy

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Working for Higher Education: Advancing Black Women’s Rights in the 1850s

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CITATION: Fett, Sharla, David Kim, and Kabria Baumgartner. “Working for Higher Education: Advancing Black Women’s Rights in the 1850s.” Colored Conventions Project. 2016. https://coloredconventions.org/women-higher-education/.

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