This is an 1873 portrait of educator Laura A. Moore Westbook (1859- 1894) tinted tintype. (Courtesy William Henry Richards Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Laura A. Moore Westbrook (1859-1894) was an American educator and lecturer.
She was the principal of Victoria City School in Victoria, Texas, later moving to teach at the Jones Male and Female Institute where her husband was principal.

She was the second vice president of the Colored Teachers' Institute, in McLennan County, Texas. She was a member and a lecturer for her state chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Lecturing for the WCTU, she traveled through several states and her lectures were described as "electrifying and inspiring."

She served on a Texas governmental advisory board and evaluated scholarship applications to Prairie View A&M University which was the first state-supported college for African Americans in the United States.

Westbrook was born to enslaved parents Amelia and Richard Moore in Tipton County, Tennessee.
After five years of tutoring from Oberlin College's Rachel Alexander, she began tutoring other girls in her community at only 11 years old.

She attended Central Tennessee College beginning in 1872, completing the normal and classical courses and graduating in 1880. She went on to receive an A. M. in 1885. She married Rev. Charles P. Westbrook in 1880.

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