Jennie Porter | |
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Born | Jennie Davis Porter 1879 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | 3 July 1936 Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | (aged 56–57)
Education | B.A., M.A., PhD., University of Cincinnati |
Occupation(s) | Activist, educator |
Known for | First black individual to receive a PhD from the University of Cincinnati |
Honors | Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (1989) |
Jennie Davis Porter (1879 – 3 July 1936) was an American educator. She was the first African-American to receive a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and became the first black female principal of a public school in Cincinnati. In 1989, she was posthumously inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame.