NSU Alumna Creates Endowed Scholarship in Her Mother’s Honor

NSU Alumna Creates Endowed Scholarship in Her Mother’s Honor

Tweet Horace Mann, a 19th century educator and champion of public education famously said, “Education is the great equalizer of the conditions of men.” Norfolk State University alumna Brenda Williams’ mother and role model, Emma Ruth Williams, shared Mann’s belief. “My mother, despite having only a 10th grade education, was a firm believer in the power of education,” recollects Williams. Reared on her grandfather’s farm in Emporia, Virginia, Wil…