Charlotte Andrews Stephens

Charlotte "Lottie" Andrews Stephens (born May 9,1854 in Little Rock, Arkansas; died 17 December 1951) was the first African American to teach in Little Rock.[1] She taught for seventy years and an elementary school was named for her in 1910.[2] She began teaching at fifteen.[3] She was born into slavery, but her father had enthusiasm for both education and the Methodist faith. This helped lead to her career.[4] Among her notable students were black composers Florence Price and William Grant Still.[5]

References
  1. Encyclopedia of Arkansas
  2. "Arkansas Moment" at UALR Public Radio
  3. Arkansas Matters
  4. Jessie Carney Smith (1996). Notable Black American Women. VNR AG. pp. 616–617. ISBN 978-0-8103-9177-2.
  5. Brown, Rae Linda (2020). The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 34. ISBN 9780252085109.
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