MARIA BALDWIN, ONE OF THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE PRINCIPALS OF A WHITE SCHOOL, RESPONDS TO AN INVITATION

MARIA BALDWIN (1856-1922). Baldwin was an African-American educator, one of the first African-American women to achieve professional success in a non-segregated school. She was the longtime principal of an Agassiz school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she oversaw mainly white faculty and students.

ALS. 1pg. October 30, 1915. Franklin Square House. An autograph letter signed “Maria L. Baldwin”: “Thank you for the guest card that has just come to me. I regret that I cannot reach you until about half past six, but I shall be there quite in time for the second part of your program. Sincerely yours, Maria L. Baldwin”.  It is in fine condition.