Pearl Carina Bowden Anderson was an African-American civic leader and renowned philanthropist. Anderson was born on August 18, 1898, in Winn Parish, Louisiana, to Nettie Bowden, a mulatto midwife, and a white physician father with the surname Thibodeaux. She was raised by her maternal grandmother, Nellie Stringer, and grew up on a small farm in […]
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