Grace C. Bibb Explained

Grace C. Bibb (1842–1912) was a feminist and philosopher. She was part of the push for equality between the sexes, as well as an advocate for women's rights, access to higher education, expansion in employment opportunities, a right to equal pay, and a woman's right to vote. She was appointed Dean at the Normal school despite the fact that women were not at that time allowed to attend the College. In her position at the Normal school, Bibb pushed that women be allowed into the College of Education. She later pushed for women to be allowed into all other university departments.

Career

Bibb was the first female appointed a deanship at Normal School aka College of Education, University of Missouri.^[1] She served as head of the Normal School from 1878 to 1883. Under her leadership women were first allowed into Normal College then all other University departments. She married Thomas Sudborough in 1884 and moved to Nebraska.^[2]

She was part of the earlier feminist movement and incorporated feminist ideas in her work, including as a frequent contributor to the Western Review and the Journal of Education.^[2]

Work experience

• Illinois High School* location unknown, high school teacher
• Illinois Normal School, (1870–71), assistant principal
• St. Louis City Schools, (1872), high school teacher
• St. Louis Normal School, (1873–77), assistant principal
• Dean, University Of Missouri Normal College, 1878–1883
• Omaha Normal School (1890), principal
• Omaha High School, high school teacher, 1898–1911 (history, mathematics, physiology, physical geography-geology)

Leadership roles

• Member, Illinois State Teachers Association, 1866
• NEA Missouri vice-president, 1879–80
• NEA officer, 1881–1882
• NEA Missouri State Manager, 1876–77, 1882–83
• NEA secretary for Louisville, 1877
• NEA secretary for Philadelphia Department of Normal Schools, 1879
• NEA Missouri state director, 1881–82
• President of The Society of Child Study, Library Association of Nebraska, 1896
• Officer of library committee of the Omaha Women’s Club, 1897
• Omaha Women’s Club leader, 1900
• Omaha Women’s Club leader, Department of History, 1901

Publications and achievements

Published articles

Source:^[2]

• "The Training to Citizenship," Illinois Teacher, November 1869
• "In the Vineyard," Illinois Teacher, December 1870
• "Course of Study of High Schools," Illinois Teacher, 1871
• "Women as Teachers," Journal of Education (St. Louis), 1873
• "The Theatre in Blackfriars," The Western Review, February 1875
• "Lady Macbeth," The Western Review, May 1875
• "Avenues into which Our Work Leads Us," The Western Review, December 1875
• "Art as a Medium of Civilization," American Journal of Education, 1876
• "The English Novel—Its Art Value," The Western Review, May 1876
• "Women as Teachers," American Journal of Education, November 1877
• Arnold of Rugby," UM Public Lectures, 1878–79
• "Normal Departments in State Universities," Journal and Proceedings of NEA, 1880
• "The Education of the Public with Reference to Normal Schools and Their Work," Education, July 1881
• "Educational Intelligence," Journal of Education, 1894
• "Rousseau," 1895
• "Children’s Interests," The Northwestern Journal of Education, July 1896
• "What Children Imitate," The Northwestern Journal of Education, July 1896
• "What They Say," ',Journal of Education 1898

Conference presentations

• "Monthly Examinations—Do They Have Their Perfect Work?," Illinois State Teachers Association, Decatur, August 1871
• "Relation of Art to Education," National Education Association Convention, Minneapolis, August 4, 1875
• "Women as Teachers," Minneapolis, August 1875
• "Attacks on Normal Schools," Louisville, Teachers’ National Association, August 1877
• "Evening Session: What Shall We Read?," Missouri Valley State Teachers Association, 1878
• "The Best Way of Arousing an Interest in Normal Work," 19th Annual Teachers’ Association Session, Columbia, Missouri, July 1880
• "Child Study and the Professional Training of Teachers," Nebraska Teachers’ Association 29th Meeting, December 27, 1894
• "Child Study Session," Educational Convention’s Program, Omaha, NE, June 28–30, 1898

Clubs

• St. Louis Hegelian Circle- translated the work of Rosenkranz and appeared in Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Bibb and her female Colleagues could not join the Society but could attend meetings and contribute articles and translations to the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Other well known female philosophers attending meetings included Susan Blow, Anna Brackett and Maretta Kies.^[2]

Places of residence

• Olive sw. cor. 12th, St. Louis, Missouri, 1871
• Park Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, 1872
• 1313 Chestnut, St. Louis, Missouri, 1874–75
• 2839 Olive, St. Louis, Missouri, 1887–78

External links

• http://muarchives.missouri.edu/c-rg8-colledu.html
• http://education.missouri.edu/about/history/index.php
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121226121354/http://www.women-philosophers.com/Grace-C-Bibb.html

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stephens. Frank. A History of The University of Missouri. University of Missouri Press.
2. Rogers, Dorothy G. (2005) America’s First Women Philosophers Transplanting Hegel, 1860-1925 New York:Continuum