Today’s #RootDisruptor is none other than: Anna Arnold Hedgemen. A civil rights leader, po

Today’s #RootDisruptor is none other than: Anna Arnold Hedgemen. A civil rights leader, politician, and writer, Anna Arnold Hedgemen was also the first African-American student at Hamline University, a Methodist college in Minnesota. After college she became a teacher, and during her tenure, Hedgemen witnessed segregation and decided to fight for its end. After holding a position as assistant dean of women at Howard University in 1946, Hedgemen later moved to New York and became the first African-American woman to hold a mayoral cabinet position in the history of the state. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #Our#History #BHM