![]() ![]() She resided with her father at 1518 Cross Street. She undertook undergraduate studies at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, and extended her education to receive a degree from the University of Chicago.Ĭowan’s teaching career at Dunbar High School in Little Rock (Pulaski County) began in 1935. From fifth grade until high school, she attended Spelman, a religious boarding school in Atlanta, Georgia. Raised until age four by her maternal grandmother in Texas, Cowan returned to Arkansas to live with her father. Alex Cowan and Leila Roberts Cowan on May 29, 1910, Sue Cowan began life in a small town in Arkansas. The tenth library in the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) is named after her.īorn in Eudora (Chicot County) to J. Sue Cowan Williams represented African-American teachers in the Little Rock School District as the plaintiff in the case challenging the rate of salaries allotted to teachers in the district based solely on skin color. ![]()
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