Lavinia B. Sneed

[4] In 1888, she married Charles Franklin Sneed, a professor at State University.

[5][3] Her career in education included teaching at State University,[3] serving on the Ladies Board of Care at Eckstein Norton University,[3] and serving as principal of the Georgia Moore Colored School and Phillis Wheatley Colored School.

[6] A highlight of her journalism career were her contributions to the magazine Our Women and Children.

Her follow contributors included Mary Virginia Cook Parrish, Lucy Wilmot Smith and Iona E.

[3] She is included in several biographical collections of notable African American women, including "Women of Distinction" (1893) edited by Lawson A. Scruggs,[2] "Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities", (1893) by Monroe Alpheus Majors and "The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia" (2015; ISBN 0813160650).