Alice Jackson Stuart

Alice Jackson Stuart
A smiling young Black woman with light skin
Alice Jackson (later Stuart), from a 1936 magazine
BornJune 2, 1913
DiedJune 13, 2001(2001-06-13) (aged 88)
EducationVirginia Union University; Columbia University
OccupationEducator
Known forFirst Black woman to apply for graduate school admission at the University of Virginia

Alice Carlotta Jackson Stuart (June 2, 1913 – June 13, 2001) was an American educator, and the first African-American woman to apply for graduate school studies at the University of Virginia. She was denied on the basis of "good and sufficient reasons" and later went on to earn her Master of Arts at Columbia University in 1937.