Letitia Woods Brown attended Tuskegee Institute, as her father had.[1][4] She graduated with a bachelor of science degree in 1935, during the middle of the Great Depression.[2][3][3][6] While she continued her education, she briefly served as a teacher in the Macon County, Alabama segregated school system, where she taught 3rd and 4th grade in 1935 and 1936.[1][2][3] She once stated, "The rural black school in the segregated post-depression era was deprived by any standard.