Abigail Rogers (1818–1869) was an American advocate for women's rights and
women's education. She founded the Michigan Women's College, and was
posthumously inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2007. Queer Places:
Michigan School for the Blind, 715 W. Willow St., Lansing, Michigan
Mount Hope Cemetery
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Abigail Rogers (1818–1869) was an American advocate for women's rights and
women's education. She founded the Michigan Women's College, and was
posthumously inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2007.
Rogers spent her whole life advocating for the admittance of women into Michigan universities. In September 1855, she founded the Michigan Women's College in Lansing, Michigan with her sister Adelia "Delia" Rogers and pioneer James Turner,[1][2] with the stated goal "to keep before the public mind as constantly as they could, the duty of the State to provide for the education of its daughters as it had already provided for the education of its sons." The college held daily sessions in the Michigan State Capitol until acquiring a location of their own in 1857. Ten years later over 1000 students had been educated. In 1869, Rogers died. Later that same year, in part as a result of her work Michigan State University (in 1869) admitted women, and the next year, the University of Michigan (in 1870) admitted women. The Michigan Women's College would eventually become the Michigan School for the Blind.[3][4][5]
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