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Annie Nathan Meyer

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Annie Nathan Meyer · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

Annie Nathan Meyer promoted women’s higher education and founded Barnard College, New York’s first liberal arts college for women.

When

19 February 1867

Biography

Annie Nathan Meyer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Annie Nathan Meyer promoted women’s higher education and founded Barnard College, New York’s first liberal arts college for women.

How & why

Annie Nathan Meyer promoted women’s higher education and founded Barnard College, New York’s first liberal arts college for women. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Myrna Goldenberg, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Myrna Goldenberg

Contributions & Sources

Annie Nathan Meyer promoted women’s higher education and founded Barnard College, New York’s first liberal arts college for women.

1867

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Myrna Goldenberg