Hettie Simmons Love
Hettie Simmons Love
Hettie Simmons Love was one of the first African-Americans to earn a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from any Ivy League University. She graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1947.
"I’d done a lot of reading, and I felt like the North was the place to be,” she said. “There was nothing to do in my hometown that used what I had. I had no freedom. Back in those days, every job you could get had to be with a Black company because no one else was hiring Black women."
"There were all kinds of organizations in the Black community who were glad to accept me."
"“Having come from the South, it didn’t bother me, because I wasn’t used to talking to white people, anyway,."
