Produced by Suzanne Shell, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Women of Achievement Written for The Fireside Schools Under the auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society by BENJAMIN BRAWLEY Dean of Morehouse College Author of "A Short History of the American Negro," "The Negro in Literature and Art," "Your Negro Neighbor," Etc. Copyright, 1919 by the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society. CONTENTS I. Introduction.--The Negro Woman in American Life. II. Harriet Tubman. III. Nora Gordon. IV. Meta Warrick Fuller. V. Mary McLeod Bethune. VI. Mary Church Terrell. [Illustration: JOANNA P. MOORE] THE FIRESIDE SCHOOLS The work of the Fireside Schools was begun in 1884 by Joanna P. Moore, who was born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, September 26, 1832, and who died in Selma, Alabama, April 15, 1916. For fifty years Miss Moore was well known as an earnest worker for the betterment of the Negro people of the South. Beginning in the course of the Civil War, at Island No. 10, in November, 1863, she gave herself untiringly to the work to which she felt called. In 1864 she ministered to a group of people at Helena, Arkansas. In 1868 she went to Lauderdale, Mississippi, to help the Friends in an orphan asylum. While she was at one time left temporarily in charge of the institution cholera broke out, and eleven children died within one week; but she remained at her post until the fury of the plague was abated. She spent nine years in the vicinity of New Orleans, reading the Bible to those who could not read, writing letters in search of lost ones, and especially caring for the helpless old women that she met. In 1877 the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society gave her its first commission.