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Irene Britton Smith: Renowned Composer and Educator

Irene Britton Smith as an accomplished African American composer who also taught Reading in the Chicago Public Schools for over 40 years. Smith was born in 1907 in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Ferron Grammar School, then completed the seventh and eighth grades at Doolittle Grammar School, two blocks away. For her secondary education she went []

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