In her oral history, Doris Madeline Hopkins, a 1928 graduate, talked about the opportunity  4 5  U.S. Department of Education (1993). U.S. Department of Education (1993), p. 76. -4that she had to work, but also about being told she had to leave her job once she got married. Indeed, at the time, marriage bars were widespread.
6 There were notable exceptions, such as, of course, Mary Emma Woolley, a Brown graduate who went on to serve as the president of Mount Holyoke College, and Ethel Robinson, the first black woman to graduate from Brown, who taught English at Howard University.