Alice Jackson Stuart | |
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Born | June 2, 1913 Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
Died | June 13, 2001 | (aged 88)
Education | Virginia Union University; Columbia University |
Occupation | Educator |
Known for | First 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.