Juanita Breckenridge Bates

Juanita Breckenridge Bates
Born(1860-12-31)December 31, 1860
Hopewell, Illinois, US
DiedJune 11, 1946(1946-06-11) (aged 58)
Ithaca, New York, US
Alma materWheaton College, Oberlin College
Occupation(s)Minister, Suffragist
Spouse
Frederick E. Bates
(m. 1893)

Juanita Breckenridge Bates (December 31, 1860 - June 11, 1946) was an American Congregationalist minister, her application being the test case to determine the policy of the denomination. She was the first woman to be awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Oberlin College (1891), and Oberlin was the first school to award this degree.[1] For decades, she was a community organizer in the women's suffrage movement.[2]

  1. ^ "Records of the Graduate School of Theology, 1841-1966". www2.oberlin.edu. Oberlin College Archives. Archived from the original on 26 March 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  2. ^ Kammen 2008, p. 97.

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