Maud McKnight Lindsay
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Maud McKnight Lindsay (1874–1941) was an American educator. She is best known for being the founder of the first free kindergarten in Alabama, and a friend of Helen Keller. In 1995, she was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.{{Cite web|url=http://www.awhf.org/lindsay.html|title=Alabama Women's Hall of Fame - Maud McKnight Lindsay|website=www.awhf.org|access-date=2017-11-03}}
Biography
She was born on May 13, 1874, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, to Robert Burns Lindsay, a politician, and Sarah Miller Lindsay. She was the last of the family's nine children to be born. Maud was homeschooled before entering the Deshler Female Institute. As a child she was friends with Helen Keller.
Lindsay learned from the kindergarten teacher Jeanne Pettit Cooper, and initially taught music at a kindergarten in Tuscumbia. In 1898, she founded, and became a teacher at the first free kindergarten in Alabama.{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2376|title=Maud McKnight Lindsay {{!}} Encyclopedia of Alabama|website=Encyclopedia of Alabama|language=en|access-date=2017-11-03}}
Lindsay was also an author and poet. She published over 18 children books. The first was Mrs. Speckelty Hen.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/alabamahistorica3194mont |title=The Alabama historical quarterly. |date=1930 |publisher=[Montgomery, Ala.] Alabama State Dept. of Archives and History |others=George A. Smathers Libraries University of Florida |pages=178–188}}
She was the third president of the Alabama Writers Conclave, and involved in several other clubs. Lindsay died on May 30, 1941.
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Category:20th-century American educators
Category:Educators from Alabama