Celebrating Naomi Anderson Project Fund

Naomi Anderson was an important and well known leader in the fight for women’s and African Americans’ rights in the 19th Century. Yet she is barely known nationwide and hardly at all in her home town of Michigan City, Indiana. Internet research reveals the rich and rewarding life that Naomi Anderson led, and which deserves to be recognized.

Naomi Bowman Talbert Anderson was born in Michigan City, Indiana on March 1, 1843 into a free African American family, just seven years after the city was incorporated. At that time, census records did not include addresses and we have been unable to determine where she lived. She was educated in Michigan City after the public school noted her writing ability and invited her to enroll in the otherwise segregated school. She later credited Michigan City for providing her with an education.

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