Nannie Helen Burroughs - Legacy and Honors

Legacy and Honors

• 1907, she received an honorary M.A. from Eckstein Norton University, a historically black college in Cane Spring, Bullitt County, Kentucky. (It merged with Simpson University in 1912.)
• 1934, the school was renamed the national Trades and Professional School for women. The school was inactive for a while during the Great Depression of the 1930's. She reopened it and continued until her death.
• 1976, the school she founded in Washington, DC, was renamed after her.
• Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue NE, a street in the Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, DC, is named after her.
• The Burroughs Collection of papers is held by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. It consists of 110,000 items (1900–1963); bulk (1928–60), which also contains material concerning her activities with the National Baptist Convention, National League of Republican Colored Women, and National Association of Wage Earners.
• In 1997 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.