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There was something about her eyes that drew me in. She was an instructor at my alma mater during the 30s and 40s and the article celebrated her recent master’s degree in sociology from my graduate institution, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  \nI tucked her photograph away in a file for future research. After I completed my program during the summer of 2020, her photo, which I’d posted years ago, reappeared in my social-media timeline. I realized that what I saw in her eyes was determination and hope. I decided to do everything in my power to uncover her story and was heartbroken to find that Beatty-Brown passed away in 2002.  \nI presumed I would not find much because I was relegated to digital collections and the extent to which archivists would be available during a pandemic, which caused the closure of countless universities and colleges or greatly reduced their availability to the public. I write this essay four months after beginning my life history study. I found a surprisingly robust amount of information about her life and conducted a wonderful interview with her only child, Robert D. Brown, Jr., and his wife, Dr. Annie Woodley-Brown.  \nI located much of what I now know about Beatty-Brown’s pursuit of higher education and her career trajectory through newspaper clippings about her many public scholarly presentations in Missouri, where she spent most of her career. I learned of her personal feelings and motivations through interviews with her family members and a collection of letters written between Beatty-Brown, her parents, and her uncle, Bruce Barton. When her father, Webster Beatty, was a child, a white preacher took him in and raised him alongside his own children. One of his sons—an advertising executive, Barton—remained a part of the Beatty family until his death in the 1960s. I found the least amount of information about her life in the archives of the institutions she worked at.  \nWhile several guiding questions drove me to continue my search for BeattyBrown, the answers left me more confounded than when I started the study. Why didn’t I know anything about her prior to this research? As a scholar of Black women’s experiences pursuing higher education in the United States, I am familiar with the necessity of going back and learning about our foremothers who have been lost to history, or, in some cases, misfiled in the historical record. There was no reason I could think of that the life of BeattyBrown would not be taught or at least studied alongside other early graduatetrained educators who were Black.  \nUnder the auspices of the Association for the Study of Negro (now African American) Life & History (ASALH),  \nCarter G. Woodson contributed graduate-education funding to several early Black historians. A 1933 graduate of Fisk University, Beatty-Brown was the only woman on this list as he contributed to her completion of her M.A. in history at the University of Illinois in 1936. She served asa member of the founding editorial board and author of several biographical sketches for the Negro (now Black) History Bulletin. Additionally, she conducted research for and earned a prestigious doctoral research fellowship from the Rosenwald Fund. In fact, the “honorary”Master of Science in Sociology degree she earned in 1939 from the University of Illinois was discussed in the newspaper article that piqued my interest in this study. The piece talked about the embedded ethnographic research she did on rural education in Louisiana for the Rosenwald Fund. 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