Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, First Female Superintendent

Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, First Female Superintendent

I believe in it ..[equal suffrage for women]. I have not been an active suffragist because I have kept so busily to my own line, but I realize that, had it not been for Susan B. Anthony and the other women who were the pioneers in woman's cause, it would not have been possible for me to teach in any more than the one room where I began.

 First female superintendent, Chicago public schools, supports woman suffrage
 
At age 15 Ella took the certification examination to become a teacher and passed but was told she was too young to be a teacher. Dr. Young received her PhD in 1900.she was superintendent of schools of Chicago from 1909 until her resignation in 1915. She also served on the Board of Education for the State of Illinois from 1888 to 1913 and was the first woman in America to head a large city school system. In 1910-1911, the membership of the National Education Association elected Dr. Young  its first woman president.

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