Monroe Academy

Antoinette Brown graduated from the district elementary school and began attending Monroe Academy . This was the first secondary school in the county, located about two miles from the Browns' home.

Antoinette Brown graduated from Monroe Academy at the age of fifteen. A few years later she enrolled in Oberlin Collegiate Institute 's writing programme.

Oberlin reluctantly accepted a few female students into the classical programme during the institute's early years, but ABB was not among them. Doubtful of her abilities in languages and mathematics at the time, she instead...