From collection Candidates
In 1888 Anna Hallowell was elected as School Director for the seventh ward school committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was an abolitionist and in the immediate years after the Civil War, worked with teachers of previously enslaved people., As a long time educator in the city Hallowell was one of the first directors of the Children's Aid Society and worked to establish free kindergartens in impoverished areas of Philadelphia. She was one of the first women to serve on the city-wide board of education. In the 1890s she worked with other progressive women to found the Women's Civic Association.
