Thank You, Sarah Jane Woodson

Every woman who ever graduated from college can look back and say a special “thank you” to Sarah Jane Woodson—one of the first women and one of the first blacks to graduate from an American College. Oberlin College in Ohio began admitting African-Americans and women in 1833—while in the south it was still illegal to educate African-Americans. Sarah Jane was born free in Ohio in 1825, the youngest of eleven children. She enrolled in Oberlin College in 1852 and graduated four years later,