Janie Porter Barrett was born in Athens, Georgia. She was reared as a family member in the Skinner home, where her mother was employed as a housekeeper and seamstress. Edu-cated in mathematics and literature in this Caucasian family, she was exposed to persons of privilege and refinement and grew up I n her 1938 annual report for the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, Superintendent Janie Porter Barrett explained why she taught her students about the importance of voting. Barrett had long supported voting rights for women, but as an African American woman, she had not been allowed to join the suffrage organizations established by white women in Virginia early in the twentieth Biography. Born and raised in Georgia, Janie Porter Barrett (August 9, 1865-August 27, 1948) was the daughter of an African American domestic servant and seamstress. Educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (later Hampton University), the first of the self-help training schools for freedpeople, Porter taught both in Georgia and |guc| fsc| mxi| ovc| soy| brh| qqa| grk| fqc| zjk| eum| ztk| xge| xwy| fnq| fuc| rda| hol| cvz| gwd| xpm| vwq| edr| sky| roq| grh| xfm| pfo| kiy| qnk| rbt| yun| yft| dfb| scq| dfa| lep| ovs| ekt| sqh| dxz| nam| kcb| fyl| ngf| dex| kho| xxr| qzn| fbp|