Brown, Hallie Quinn (10 March 1849–16 September 1949), educator, elocutionist, and entertainer, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Thomas Arthur Brown, a steward and express agent on riverboats, and Frances Jane Scroggins. Both her parents were formerly enslaved. When Hallie was fourteen years old, she moved with her parents and five siblings to Chatham, Ontario, where her father earned his living farming, and the children attended the local school. There Brown’s talents as a speaker became evident. Returning to the United States around 1870, the family settled in Wilberforce, Ohio, so that Hallie and her younger brother could attend Wilberforce College, a primarily Black African Methodist Episcopal (AME) institution....
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Brown, Hallie Quinn (10 March 1849–16 September 1949), educator, elocutionist, and entertainer
Claire Strom
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Hallie Q. Brown. With two nieces, c. 1913. Courtesy of the National Afro-American Museum.
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Carnegie, Dale (1888-1955), author and teacher of public speaking
Nicholas C. Polos
Carnegie, Dale (22 November 1888–01 November 1955), author and teacher of public speaking, was born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey in Maryville, Missouri, the son of James William Carnegey and Amanda Elizabeth Harbison. In 1919 he changed his name to Carnegie in honor of his hero, ...
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Dale Carnegie. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-93593).
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Morgan, Anna (1851-1936), speech and drama teacher
Barbara L. Tischler
Morgan, Anna (24 February 1851–27 August 1936), speech and drama teacher, was born in Fleming, New York, the daughter of Allen Denison Morgan, a gentleman farmer, and Mary Jane Thornton. After the death of her father in 1876, Anna moved with her family to Chicago, where she studied elocution at the Hershey School of Music. She soon earned a local reputation as a dramatic reader with a naturalistic approach that contrasted with the current fashion of more stilted and stylized speech. Her repertoire included selections from plays by Shakespeare, Schiller, and Maurice Maeterlinck, and poetry by authors that ranged from Robert Browning to ...
