Sarah Jane Woodson Early, notable teacher and member of the WCTU.

The article focuses on teacher Sarah Jane Woodson Early who after graduating was hired at Wilberforce University in 1858 as the first Black woman college instructor and the first Black to teach at a historically Black college or university. It informs that she served as national superintendent of the Black Division of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. It states that she was a guest speaker in 1893 at the World's Conference of Representative Black Women in Chicago, Illinois.