Olympia Brown

Olympia Brown (born Jan. 5, 1835, Prairie Ronde, Mich., U.S.—died Oct. 23, 1926, Baltimore, Md.) was a minister and social reformer, an active campaigner for woman suffrage and one of the first American women whose ordination was sanctioned by a full denomination. Brown was refused admission to the University of Michigan because of her sex and instead attended Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for a year and then Antioch College (now Antioch University)...