Nannie Helen Burroughs studied business and domestic science in high school and graduated with honors in 1896. After graduation, Nannie was denied a teaching position by the Board of Education in the District of Columbia.

She moved to Philadelphia and became Associate Editor of a Baptist newspaper, The Christian Banner.

In 1907, Nannie received support from the National Baptist Convention to begin plans for building the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls in Washington, D.C. The school opened in 1909 with her as president. The creed stressed at the school was the “three B’s – the Bible, the bath, the broom: clean life, clean body, clean house.”

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