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Challenging Educational Systems: Julie Ann Tevis

Mar 30, 2021
6 mins

Episode Description

Today, we continue looking at the spaces where women contributed to forming Kentucky’s well-known institutions. But unlike Mary Catherine Spalding, our subject today – and her institution – challenged the status quo. Her name was Julie Ann Tevis. The institution? Science Hill Academy, which pioneered the idea that girls had equal abilities - and thus deserved equal education to - boys.

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