Queer Ancestor Spotlight: Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill

Lucy Diggs Slowe was an African-American educator and athlete, and founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the first sorority founded by African-American women. Mary Burrill was an African-American playwright of the Harlem Renaissance, writing plays about the Black experience and often centered the Black elite of Washington D.C. in her work. Slowe and Burrill met in 1912 and would go on to spend twenty-five years together.